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Definition

This house which is in this case Indonesia Believe That Violent Protest is legitimate strategy in
Democracy country. So ladies and gentlemen democracy itself is a form of idealism that implemented in
government in which all citizens have equal rights in decision making that can change their lives.
Democracy allows citizens to participate - either directly or through representation - in the formulation,
development and law making. So means that Indonesia goverment is open of criticism and opinion from
their citizen. And even their right to delivering their criticism and opinion is guaranteed by the
government through the laws of our country.

And violent protest that commonly happen here is for example are like spray panting their arguments on
the public buildings or burning things in the middle of the street for example is like tires or else. And all
of this action are actually a way of expressing and showing to the government about how anger and total
disagree us as the citizen here of the decision that goverment makes.

Background

Violent protest itself is actually quite often we see in our demo action in our country. And its peak is in
Orde Lama era when violent protest was done so many times by the college students in indonesia that
really mad with the President Soeharto's regime. They already tried diplomacy to delivered their opinion
and criticism to the government but the government did not respond to them. Goverment in that era
became so immune to the criticism and even tried to limit and criminalize people who dare to give
criticism to the government. So they did a big protest in 1998 to overthrow Soeharto. They tried to
devastate public facilities and so many more. And it was work. College students succeed to overthrow
Soeharto's regime on Mei 21th 1998.

Argument

Why it is better for us to believe that violent protest is legitimate than not believing it at all?

Because in some cases when diplomacy way is not work anymore to deliver our opinion toward the
goverments we have to take this action. Because if we keep insist to not use this way in cases when it is
nearly impossible for us to be heard by the goverment, and government at that time take an action that
really deviated from the soul of the country, our country will falling into pieces. So instead of us just
sitting there unwilling to actually take an action, a way so the goverment finally heard us, a way to stop
our country to falling into pieces this action might be the only solution so goverment finally full ears for
listening to our criticism.

Example

Lets take a look to what currently happening in our country right now. Lately government deciding to
legalizing RKUHP that is actually most of the citizen in Indonesia doesnt approve because some
regulation that contained in RKUHP are delimit their space in living their life in Indonesia. Such as Article
469 that regulates the punishment for women who abort their womb, a maximum 4 years of
imprisonment. When actually goverment should morr concern about the mental health of the mother
especially when it is comes to cases when the mother is the rape victims. And citizen already trying to
show our disagreement towards this regulation, and we already tried diplomacy to deliver it. And
diplomacy in here is for example is writing and posting our criticism on media such as television,
newsletter and especially social media. And some of the citizen even already tried to sending letter to
the DPR and president about our opinion of their action. But what we got from it? They respond it by not
minding our opinion at all and even they keep insist to continuing to legalizing this RKHUP. And of course
in this case if we keep trying to use diplomacy while this RKUHP is going to be legalize soon in just by
counting days is not fixing anything or slowing the legalizing down. And even as the result of some
college student's violent protest lately towards this RKUHP, we the citizen suceed to send our
representative -one of this college students to actually come and sit with all the DPR and discuss our
concern.

Conclusion

So from all the explanation and examples i said before, we can clearly see that violent protest is counted
as legitimate strategy in Democracy country in cases when any other way of delivering our opinion and
criticism dont work and taken seriously anymore.

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