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The INDONESIAN (Jakarta) – His Excellency (YM) HRM Soekarna, Advisor to Indonesia’s Independence Pioneers and Figure of the Nusantara Customary Leaders, along with the Experts Council/Advisors of the Majelis Adat Indonesia (MAI – Indonesian Customary Council), issued a firm statement addressing the widespread practice of abuse of power and obstruction of justice within the government of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI). He also emphasized the importance of preserving customary traditions and ancestral cultural heritage as defining characteristics of the nation’s identity.
In his statement, YM HRM Soekarna stressed that any state official in the executive, legislative, or judicial branches who knowingly deviates from the public mandate and constitution has essentially lost moral, ethical, and historical legitimacy as servants of the nation and state.
“Furthermore, he cautioned: ‘When a nation abandons its customary traditions and ancestral cultural heritage, it will lose its defining identity. And once a nation loses its identity, it becomes like a living corpse that can easily be turned into a puppet for the interests of other nations,’” he stated firmly.
“Whether they like it or not, every NKRI government official who betrays the public mandate has in fact betrayed the nation, the state, and the future of their own descendants,” YM HRM Soekarna emphasized.
He highlighted that abuse of power and obstruction of justice are structural crimes that not only damage the legal system and democracy but also destroy the foundations of social justice and national sovereignty – exacerbating the risk of losing national identity due to neglect of cultural values. Below are indicators of officials who have fallen ethically and historically:
1. Committing corruption in all forms, both direct and covert, which robs the people of their right to life, welfare, and future;
2. Abusing power for the interests of individuals, groups, cronies, or certain oligarchs;
3. Obstructing legal processes to protect power-related crimes and perpetrators of violations;
4. Colluding with foreign powers or interests that could undermine the political, economic, and cultural sovereignty of the NKRI;
5. Enacting laws or public policies that clearly burden, oppress, and suppress the lives of the majority of the people.
According to YM HRM Soekarna, these actions are not only violations of positive law but also serious breaches of the noble values of Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution, oaths of office, customary law, and the collective morality of the Indonesian nation. “Officials who betray the people face not only legal issues but have fallen ethically, culturally, and historically in the eyes of the nation,” he added.
Therefore, before the nation loses its identity entirely, YM HRM Soekarna stated that the Indonesian Customary Council must be established as the vanguard to safeguard sovereignty across all aspects of the people’s, nation’s, and state’s life. Based on the mandate of Chapter I Article 1 Paragraph (2) and Article 30 of the 1945 Constitution, he also urged relevant police authorities to immediately drop all unethical charges against Sedulur Raja Moronene.
“We, the customary communities present across every inch of the Nusantara archipelago, have existed and held ancestral lands as customary territories long before the NKRI was formed. Our ancestors also took part in establishing the NKRI. The duty of the government, including the police, is to manage all aspects of national life to achieve just and prosperous welfare for the people, in accordance with Article 33 Paragraph 3 of the 1945 Constitution and the fifth principle of Pancasila,” he explained.
As Advisor to Indonesia’s Independence Pioneers and Figure of the Nusantara Customary Leaders, YM HRM Soekarna affirmed that the Indonesian people have a moral, historical, and constitutional right to demand justice, truth, and the restoration of national sovereignty from all forms of power betrayal. This press release is a call for national awareness for all elements of society – the people, customary leaders, religious leaders, youth, students, journalists, and integrity-driven state officials – to unite in safeguarding the dignity of the NKRI from moral collapse, justice crisis, and sovereignty erosion.
“Pancasila is a divine framework fully embodied in each principle, interconnected and enshrined in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution. All state institutions are obligated to implement these values consistently and responsibly,” YM HRM Soekarna concluded, with spirited emphasis: “BRAVO. M.A.I.” (Ed)
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