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Posted by The Observer | Posted in Penting aja | Posted on 27-08-2009
Tags: free speech, hate speech
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Jadi..misi utama blog ini dibuat adalah untuk menampung ide-ide yang kelewat ga penting.. Dan saya harap postingan kali ini masi sama ga pentingnya ama yang sebelum-sebelumnya…
Dua hari lalu ,,sambil nunggu ujian masuk akselerasi S2, iseng-iseng saya baca koran berbahasa Inggris ternama di Indonesia..The Jakarta Post..
Halaman 1…ga menarik..halaman 2..lumayan..berlanjut akhirnya sampai saya ke halaman editorial..halaman favorit saya tiap baca koran.. (yah,,editorial nomer satulah, baru abis gitu halaman lowongan kerja rangking duanya)
Ada bacaan yang bener-bener menarik..berikut saya lampirkan…
The Jakarta Post
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Editorial: Stop hate speech
As we welcome the police’s decision to drop their plan to
monitor religious sermons for radical content, we are still left
with one unanswered and fundamental question: What to do with
hate sermons? We certainly can’t ignore them.
Some of the hatred and violent teachings that have led to young
people becoming involved in terrorist activities, including
suicide bombings, originated from mosques, hence the plan to
monitor sermons. Police are simply trying to enforce article 156
of the Criminal Code that stipulates that anyone delivering hate
speeches can be jailed for up to four years.
This inevitably brings us to the question of the freedom of
expression, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, and its
limits, one of them being the law against hate speech. How do we
enforce this law without violating people’s right to free speech?
Society certainly cannot remain silent in the face of the
growing influence of violent ideologies that preach hatred and
encourage people to attack others on the grounds of their race,
ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual-orientation or economic
class.
If there is one big lesson that we take from the devastating
twin bomb attacks in two Jakarta hotels last month, it is that
we as a nation have become too lenient in the face of such
barbaric acts, and this has sent the wrong message to those
engaged in hate speech and the spread of violent ideologies to
continue on their radical path.
Instead of an outright condemnation, President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono publicly claimed that he was being targeted by
terrorists, while others tried to pin the blame on the
deterioration of socio-economic conditions that make society a
breeding ground for radical Islamic teachings and terrorism.
At the very least, police have been bold enough to claim that
part of the problem can be sourced to mosques where violent
ideologies and hatred are being freely discussed.
The idea of police vetting religious sermons however is as
abhorrent as the violent messages they seek to prevent. During
the Soeharto regime, many preachers were jailed for advocating
hatred, not so much against other religions as against the
government. The police then were nothing more than an oppressive
tool used to sustain the violent regime.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with article 156 of the
Criminal Code. Every nation – and especially one as racially,
ethnically and religiously diverse as Indonesia -needs a law to
deal with hate speeches. The article only became notorious
because it was widely abused by Soeharto for more than 30 years.
Rather than relying on the police, this time around, members of
the public should be encouraged to report hate speeches. This is
part of their civic duty as much as their obligation to report
on suspicious activities in their neighborhood. Let the court
decide when free speech crosses the limit of tolerance and
becomes hate speech.
Our best insurance against the spread of violent teaching and
hatred is not the court, but our education system, and in a
democracy, by using free speech to fight hate speech. Our
society is mature and wise enough to tell what’s right and wrong.
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Saya ga bisa lebi setuju lagi…
Coba perhatiin paragraf terakhir… cara terbaik buat mencegah ”virus kebencian” bukan dengan membungkam atau memberi batasan bicaraa ke orang-orang. Cara yang paling oke ya dengan menggunakan FREE SPEECH…
Coba kita menelusuri jejak ingatan kita waktu SD dulu– waktu kita dijejelin ama pasal-pasal UUD…ada kan yang namanya kebebasan berpendapat, berserikat dan berkumpul?
Mereka-mereka yang melaksanakan hate speech ini emang ga ngelanggar pasal apapun..justru itulah keahlian mereka..cari celah. Tapi kita ga hole kalah pinter dong. Kalo kita buru-buru bikin aturan yang mengesankan negara itu ngelanggar hak berbicara rakyatnya, jatuhnya malah jelek tar citra si pemerintah (menerapkan prinsip komunikasi PR)… pan kita-kita juga masi taruma noh ama pembredelan dan pengekangan kebebasan bicara. Kalo tar ada oknum-oknum jahat yang manfaatin peraturan itu untuk membungkam kebebasan bicara secara umum gimana?
Makanya… Kenapa ga kita didik masyarakat lewat iklan-iklan televisi, atau drama-drama parodi di radio, terus bikin kampanya-kampanye seru yang menyisipkan pesan ”jangan terkecoh sama mulut-berbisa-para-hate-speaker”. It spends money for sure. Karena bikin iklan yang kreatif (yang bukan ala iklan layanan masyarakat yang selama ini beredar ya…) itu ga murah. Belum lagi air timenya harus banyak biar tiap lapisan maysrakat sering disuguhi ama iklan-iklan pemerintah ini.
Hahaha…ini cuman pendapat saya aja loh…
Btw,,postingan kali ini keliatan banyak dan keren gara-gara copy-paste artikel ini…hahhaha…*ketawa curang…
Yah.. saya sebagai WNI yang alim, baik hati, jujur dan rajin jebolin tabungan cuman berharap masyarakat kita makin pintar dan pemerintah kita ambil sikap yang tepat. Karena masyarakat kita itu sebenernya gampang kok diarahin..asal dengan cara yang halus, dan ga berasa lagi diarahin aja.
Oh iya…selamat kembali ke pangkuan ibu pertiwi wahai Majikan LB… maaf saya harus bolong-bolong postingnya. Minggu depan ada setan jempol menanti untuk ditulis…hehehe
Salam,
The observer



