Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Pluralism essential to RI future, nation told

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Pluralism essential to RI future, nation told

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The future success of Indonesia hinges on the development of a pluralistic society, which will provide the groundwork and act as a vital asset for national improvement, sociologists and political experts say.

"Changing the Indonesian people's mindset to embrace pluralism is important for the nation's improvement. We can start with education, in communities and public domains," said the executive director of the Reform Institute, Yudi Latif, on Tuesday.

At a seminar titled "The Uprising of a New Indonesia", which was co-organized by the University of Indonesia, the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) and the Communication and Information Ministry, Yudi said that multiculturalism is a great national asset.

As long as Indonesians remain bound to ethnic and religious frameworks and limitations, the country is slated for decline, he said. Yudi is also deputy rector at Paramadina University.

"A synthesis of all these movements, such as ethnicity and religions, is the key. If we have that, then our success as a nation is only a matter of time," he said, adding that every successful civilization in history constituted a hybrid society.

Sociologist at the University of Indonesia, Meuthia Ganie-Rochman, said preserving multiculturalism would help keep the country's process of democratization on track.

"Ethnic- or religious-based institutions should understand the needs of the public. The functions of those institutions can be altered according to those needs," she said, adding, however, that the ways in which Indonesians should manage such changes remain to be explored.

Director for industry, science and technology and state-owned enterprise affairs at Bappenas, Mesdin Simarmata, told The Jakarta Post that in terms of the diversity of its people and broader community, Indonesia is on par with the U.S. or the former Soviet Union.

Although the creation of a truly pluralistic nation would be difficult, Mesdin said, Indonesians could expedite the process simply by respecting each other.

Political economics and public policy expert Andrinof A. Chaniago said that from an economic perspective, a crucial factor in developing Indonesia would be to negate the nation's Java-centric attitude to development.

"We are experiencing a social imbalance. For example, 90 percent of turnpike investment is on Java," he said.

Andrinof added that turnpike investment in southern Java would trigger the development of upper-class residences there, such as those already in West Java's Bogor and Puncak areas.

"Moreover, these would bring seasonal flood disasters to the area. If this persists, then by about 2025 Indonesia could have another financial crisis just like the one we had in 1998," he said.

Andrinof added that long-term planning in the country should involve striking a balance between growth both on and outside Java and in rural and urban areas. It should also provide economic opportunities to both the haves and have-nots, he said.

He said the long-term vision for Indonesia was initially formulated by the Indonesian Forum Foundation and was announced at the State Palace in March this year.