Megawati: Pancasila Should Not Always Be Jargon
JAKARTA - The Fifth President of the Republic of Indonesia Megawati Soekarnoputri reminded that Pancasila is not just a jargon, but implemented in state life.
"Pancasila should not always be jargon. Pancasila is needed for this nation to be implemented," Megawati said in her speech online at the Inauguration of Bung Karno Monument, on the page of the Office of the National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas) RI, Jakarta, reported antara, Thursday. May 20th.
Moreover, megawati continued, by lemhannas people who have been galvanized or who are being galvanized, where the prospective leaders from all corners of the country, gathered, met to join together, do collective work, and most importantly formulate a path for Indonesia Raya.
Megawati who was present at the inauguration ceremony of the Statue of Proklamator RI Bung Karno in Lemhannas Building, along with her daughter who is also the Chairman of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia Puan Maharani and Secretary General of PDI Perjuangan Hasto Kristiyanto stated that the statue of Bung Karno should be a reminder, so that the institution really galvanizes the candidates who actually implement Pancasila.
Megawati implies that you should not be allergic to Pancasila, because Bung Karno said the basis of an independent Indonesian state is Pancasila.
"But Bung Karno never declared himself as the inventor of Pancasila. Bung Karno is just a pancasila digger for the soul element of the Indonesian nation," said Megawati.
Therefore, Megawati stated that everything should open the eyes of the mind, mind, and soul, and be really consistent, and really run Pancasila.
Associated with lemhannas people, said Megawati, it is expected that when it comes time for them to become leaders, they have had the same understanding, related to the joints of state life.
"Imagine if from Papua met with the ones from Aceh, each of them must have a difference, but there are similarities, that's the intention of Bung Karno, when he founded, opened Lemhannas," said Megawati.
Bung Karno also placed Lemhannas as a lunar crater in the face of prospective leaders and as a think-tank of warrior thinkers, based on Indonesia's strategic geopolitical position.
Since the founding of Bung Karno, Megawati said the Proklamator repeatedly conveyed to her, how to realize a fully sovereign Indonesia, which is able to lay the foundations of defense and security in accordance with the geopolitics and culture of Indonesia. At that point the importance of Lemhannas, said Megawati.
Chairman of the Board of Directors bpip, then said that through Lemhannas, Bung Karno also wants to form 100 percent of the nation's patriots and true nationalists, who excel in geopolitical understanding for the sovereignty of the nation.
Lemhannas is expected to be an institutional foundation for Indonesia's pioneering accelerate the realization of the ideals of independence.
"Hopefully with the inauguration of the statue of Bung Karno today, all of us, especially Lemhannas, can carry out the task of describing the conception of Trisakti in the life of a nation and a state, sovereign in the field of politics, self-sufficient in the field of economics, and personality in culture," said Megawati Soekarnoputri.