Over the past week, I’ve been reading news about how there
is no real effort to take care the problem named: “flood”. Recent flooding in
Ciledug has had the people there fuming. Your friend in mind, Joko Widodo, or
Jokowi, has been the man on the hot seat in this matter. I, however, find this
rather funny.
For one thing, Ciledug is not even a part of Jakarta if I
remember correctly. I believe it is part of Banten. Jokowi is the governor of
Jakarta, so I don’t think he deserves the critique he’s been receiving in the
past week. Of course, he could have done something, but the blame should not be
all placed on him.
Another thing I want to point out is that it is not easy to
deal with stuff like flood or traffic jam. There are lots of aspects needed to
fully come up with a solution for problems. Unfortunately, Indonesians are the
instant type. What I mean is that people expect someone to do something and,
boom, problem solved.
One last thing that needs to be addressed is that the people
that can only criticize have not done the littlest thing to aid the problem
solving. I mean, no matter how much
efforts Jokowi and his peers do to solve the flooding problem, it will not do anything
as long as we, as the citizen, throws our plastics, papers, sandals, and refrigerator
(yes, you read that right, RE-FRI-GE-RA-TOR!) anywhere we please (read: the
rivers, waterways, gutters, etc).
All in all, I guess what I'm trying to say is, Before criticizing others' effort, question yourself: "What have I done to help?"
-Radit-
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