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I would hope the powers that be in Pakistan, allow elections to happen ASAP, or at least put all of them together (provincial and national) in June, like Zalmay Khalizhad wrote in a recent election.
In the mean time, I hope they invite Indonesian officials from the government and military to see if a similar democratic evolution can occur in Pakistan. IMHO, Pakistan needs an election to bring in a government with the consent of the govern, as well as move away from divisive politics (so all allegations need to be handled in court in a transparent and honest manner) as well as a restoration of faith of the people with all institutions of the state including the powers that be.
Would you say this was achieved over the last 25 years in Indonesia?
Many would say that many reform seen Today is the work done during 1998-1999 under BJ Habibie as President. His administration is also able to stabilize Rupiah from 16.000 per USD into around 8000 USD per USD with the help of Allah. Previous parliament under Golkar leadership was basically important in making many structural reform through parliament process before we made 1999 democratically and fair election. The first democratically and fair election made by Indonesians was in 1955 where Communist sits as number fourth biggest party.
Democratization process needs the support from education system. As long as Pakistani keeps its stubborn behavior to put Defense Spending around 4 % of its GDP, I would say your aspiration is difficult to achieve.
Education and building institution needs money. Raising salary of government official is also part of structural reform in Pakistan. Needs to respect woman right as well.
Indonesian politics also regards student politics quite high. During Independence declaration, Kicking out Communisms, and Reformation movement that lead to Soeharto fall all have huge university students contribution.
Journalism are also respected and protected.
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Democracy in Indonesian language is called as Musyawarah (People Consultation). The words comes from Arabic word "Syura" written in Quran about people consultation system preferred by God for solving issue.
Musyawarah is part of our Pancasila Ideology and has been made before we proclaim Independence. The process in making Pancasila itself is very democratic as many Indonesian founding fathers participated in making it.