Public Safety in Indonesia: Revolutionary Action is Required!

It's a sad thing to say that there is no evidence that 'public safety' in Indonesia has ever been given the right level of priority by the Indonesian government. President Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla could claim their achievements in various areas like anti-corruption actions, Aceh, BLT and so on and so forth, but public safety has been ignored and no major improvement efforts has been made so far alhthough many incidents and accidents involving multi-fatalities have occured in all types of transportations, public facilities, and public places. The previous administrations were no different, public safety is considered as not a fruitfull commodity to promote their popularities. Every year, the people keep watching multi-fatalities incidents and accidents in the media and started to feel like it is a routinity.

Sadly, the public could only hear some reactive responses to such incidents which were frequently not followed up to an adequate preventions of recurrences. The related agencies only made their best efforts to deny of being responsible for such cases by making statements on TV's with innocent faces, and point their fingers to others.

In the most recent incident in Situ Gintung for example, one of BPPT official revealed on a TVinterview  that they have predicted this incidnet could happen and has informed another agency. He just wanted to show that he's done something about it, but he seems to satisfy and stop there, without feeling responsible  to do more and make sure all actions are taken to prevent losses of life.

I really wish that who ever rule this country in the next 5 years shall have a sense of urgency in public safety and have a courage to make a revolutionary changes in public safety management in the government system.

How do we start?

First, by realizing that this is not an easy task, will take long time and may go through a very painfull process, but it is absoluletly achievable!!