In Commemorating The Birth Of Pancasila, Jokowi: We Will Get Through Difficult Times Once More

Screenshot of President Jokowi's speech on the Birthday of Pancasila (doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo commemorates the Birth of Pancasila which falls today. Every June 1 is a form of warning that Pancasila is the basic ideology of the state.

Through his personal Instagram account, Jokowi said that Indonesia, as a great nation, has sailed through various eras guided by the values contained in Pancasila.

Therefore, during the current COVID-19 pandemic, Jokowi believes that Indonesia can get out of the difficult times by holding on to Pancasila.

"Holding on to those values too, with unity and mutual cooperation, we will go back through these difficult times and come out victorious", Jokowi said on his Instagram account, Tuesday, June 1.

Separately, Cabinet Secretary (Seskab) Pramono Anung said that Pancasila as the philosophy of life of the Indonesian people is a powerful weapon to overcome various problems of the nation.

"Pancasila as an ideology that lives in this nation, which grows and develops from its nation has always proven to be the solution to various problems of the Indonesian nation", Pramono said in his statement.

Likewise, when the Indonesian people struggle to overcome and rise from the current pandemic. Pramono assessed that the spirit of mutual cooperation shown by all components of the nation was a manifestation of the practice of the values contained in Pancasila.

"One of the important and most important meanings in Pancasila when dealing with COVID-19 is mutual cooperation. By working together, we see the Indonesian people solving many things, including solving the COVID-19 problem", he said.