TEKS PIDATO PRESIDEN SOEKARNO DI KONGRES AMERIKA SERIKAT 17 MEI 1956
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TEKS PIDATO PRESIDEN SOEKARNO DI KONGRES AMERIKA SERIKAT 17 MEI 1956
“... We
have our feet on the road to democracy, and we have made a good start.
But we will not deceive ourselves with the false illusion that we have
traversed the full extent of the road to democracy, if indeed any end
there be.
The
secret ballot, the free press, the freedom of belief, the votings in
parliaments - these are all merely expressions of democracy. Freedom of
expression has a guardian in a certain measure of prosperity, the
achievement of freedom from want.
For
us then, democratic principles are not simply an aim. The expression of
desire inherent in human nature, they are also a means of providing our
people with reasonable standard of living. The freedom of expression
and the freedom of wants are indivisible, two interdependent souls in
our body.
As
with all other freedoms, freedom of expression is no absolute, its
indiscriminate and unrestrained exercise could hamper harmonious growth
of other freedoms, could hamper the harmonious growth from want, and
thus sow the seed for the destruction of the fundamentals of human
freedom itself...
...
To the famished man democracy can never be more than a slogan. What
can a vote mean to a woman worn out by toll, whose children fret and all
with the fever of malaria? Democracy is not merely government by the people, democracy is also government for the people ..."
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