Professor Forum Urges Academics To Avoid Advertising Electoral Opinion

JAKARTA - A number of academics acting on behalf of the Professor Forum appeal to all academic community to avoid statements that can lead electoral opinions and place the interests of the nation and state.Chairman of the Presidium of the Indonesian Professor Forum Prof. Singgih Tri Sulistyono said, in responding to the increasingly heated development of national life, academics and scholars as well as community figures should convey better thought than to burn the situation. "Conciliation is more than enlivening, more solution than provocative," said Singgih in his statement received in Jakarta, Thursday.

The professor at Diponegoro University invited the academics and national scholars to become complaints by standing in the middle and nurturing, brightening when it is dark, and guiding the future.

According to him, academics and academics should not actually convey statements that can create an impression as if to attract electoral political opinion towards certain parties and negate other parties so as to ignite an atmosphere full of tension and conflict.

The Professor's Forum statement was attended by 15 professors from various universities, and produced 8 announcements that were intended to cool and reconcile the atmosphere and solution to the issue of national issues., in the midst of the five-year political contestation situation. "Let us protect, we care for, and we continue to develop this NKRI heirloom as a safe, peaceful, united, loving, mutual respect, full mutual cooperation with kinship, responsibility, prosperity, justice and prosperity based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution," he said.