MAKASSAR STUDENTS ARE BECOMING NOTORIOUS
A wave protest now unfolding in Makassar city is the biggest protest of government’s new policy increasing the price of fuel or reallocating the fuel subsidy in Indonesia. The protest done by students indicates that the students in Makassar are very militant and brave to fight for society. But, something which is very disgraceful is that, while the students are demonstrating in the street, a great teacher of HASANUDDIN University along with his female students is seized consuming drugs. Then now media is full of negative news from “Daeng city”. It is so mysterious why at the same time media blows up bad news from Makassar. In my opinion, all this phenomenon do not happen by accident, however there is a scenario which is set by invisible man to make people’s mind that all protests done by the students of Makassar do not make sense at all.
As my knowledge, in the last ten years, students’ movement becomes greater and greater in Makassar. All government’s policies which are thought not going with people interest will be protested. And, some cases like corruption and human right violation are clearly, strictly protested by the students in this city. But, now media focuses on negative news. Some weeks ago, one private TV station televised an investigation about the way a female student to get score from her lecturer in order to graduate from university. The way is committing sexual intercourse so that the student gets score. Another case is the investigation of black market or drug web that is prolific in campus area. Those investigations as if announce to the society how bad educational condition of Makassar is.
However, all the bad news that media focuses on are very common cases that happen in every campus in Indonesia. For example, an article or memoir that I read recently tells how free students’ life styles in java or Jakarta. Another example which is more vivid is a novel entitled “Tuhan Ijinkan Aku Jadi Pelacur“ which tells about female student’s life in a campus in Java. So, I can conclude that educational condition in Makassar is not worse than another city in Indonesia. Then my question is why, why media focus on it now? Why not yesterday or tomorrow.
The media as opinion maker blows the militancy of the students and the immoral act of academicians of Makassar simultaneously. It shows how clever the invisible man to stunt students’ movement by making people’s mind through media that whatever Makassar students do is nonsense.
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