Do we have freedom? Do we feel have the freedom? Do we just feel like having the freedom?
Freedom is essential to distinguish humans from other living creatures. Therefore, the freedom of being human, both rights and obligations. So, the answer to the first question becomes absolute haqul: yes, we have freedom.
Do we feel have it or not, it is determined by the level of socio-political consciousness of each individual. Then came the gradations of freedom that are affected by subtle differences in education, reading, and social person. People fought hard so educated, wealthy, and have a wide network, the edges are anyway, multiply the options for free. Conversely, one could ignore the school, wealth, and extensive connections, because he felt without it all he had become a free man. Wealth and power do not have value when they do not add free choice.
Even the wealth and power can be terrifying when suppressing freedom.
At the time of oppressing human freedom, at this point that he really just felt like having freedom. This is a false consciousness. Because, when he kills freedom, connected to each of three money anyway he was wounded humanity.
Case Bambang Harymurti
The Court of Bambang Harymurti and two Tempo journalists today, nor the events that befall other press agencies such as the Trust magazine, the daily Rakyat Merdeka, and Java Post, is not merely a legal case, but especially a murder case against human freedom and pencederaan humanity. Why is that?
Analogy journalist working as a doctor's work can perhaps translate the philosophy of freedom with simple words in this short article. Task journalists equal to the task of physicians, is to save human beings to live free. The doctor examine, probe, and administer medications, even when the need to perform surgical operations. Journalists interviewed, search, and provide information, even if necessary, conduct an investigation. Doctors have a standard work procedures and code of ethics, journalists were obliged to work in accordance with standard procedures and code of ethics. If not, they could be accused of malpractice and dismissed from the profession.
Whether by following standard procedures and codes of ethics, doctors and journalists certainly can save men to live free? Does the good doctor would guarantee patients will not die? Is that good journalists must ensure the audience gets an undeniable information? Not necessarily. Patients may die and the information can be wrong. However, doctors and journalists can not be punished if he had worked in accordance with standard procedures and code of ethics.
Who wants to be a doctor and journalist if in every process of action can be contested or criminalized? Any intervention from anyone to their work and can actually disrupt the independence of his work. That's where the doctors and journalists have the freedom of working autonomously in the profession. Freedom was given not to take it easy, work at will, but rather to ensure the benefit of human life.
Well, what if all the work standards and codes of conduct have been followed, yet the patient died or news wrong? Human struggle with the concept of freedom has found a well-known: freedom of information. The aggrieved party can file a claim on the truth of the information, and a doctor or journalist is obliged to give answers to the party entitled to it.
Indonesia does not yet have a Freedom of Information Act and the institutions that facilitate citizen like the Information Commission. However, there is the Indonesian Doctors Association and the Press Council could become the forum of arbitration for claims for the correctness of information.
If the arbitration process is run, especially for the case of the press, we could believe that in fact we have the freedom of the press and indeed feel have the freedom of the press. Conversely, the criminalization of the press with demands on the courts to kill the media (even overkilling!) Showed only a false sense of freedom.
Those who did probably did not realize that killing the media means injured people, including his own humanity.
The author supports the statement that the Press Antikriminalisasi Committee requested that the panel of the Central Jakarta District Court judges who hear cases freeing Tempo Bambang Harymurti and two journalists. More than just a matter Tempo, the case, as well as affecting other media, is a common problem in an effort to uphold democracy and freedom.
As citizens, we have been injured because the media no longer free to provide the information we need. Choice of information that we have even more limited.
Citizen Lawsuit, once again as citizens, we can not allow cases of criminalization of the press is more and more and more detrimental to the public. How? At least two: how thugs and nonpreman or a civilized manner.
Want to use way of thugs? O, it's easy, just use violence, intimidation, sabotage, even if I have to use the issue of race, religion, race, and the Intergroup, such provocations that have devastated many parts of the country. Want a more subtle way, looking for a lively lawyer, played a bribe prosecutors and judges so the court's decision can be arranged. Outside court, print media or steal terbitkanlah frequency license to make a radio or TV that it supports our efforts to beat the opponent.
But, brethren, the ways these thugs will only alienate us from our own freedom and humanity. So, do not mind to be used because the result will only make us feel as if it has freedom.
What about the road nonpreman? In the co-author of several program activities LBH Pers, there is an alternative legal path that can be taken to combat the criminalization of the press, the Citizen Lawsuit.
As citizens we can call for a policy that must be performed by state institutions to stop the criminalization of the press.
Unfortunately, this paper has limited space to explain melik Citizen-Lawsuit scales, but in essence you are with your colleagues (including me) can ask the Supreme Court (MA) to issue a Regulation MA (Perma) that binds to the ranks of judges throughout Indonesia for using the Press Law No. 40/1999 as the specific rules in solving the problems caused by the press.
Press Law was not very perfect, but at least assure us as citizens to obtain information through the press. With the freedom of the press, does not mean the media and employees can launch oneself as good news because there are work standards and code of ethics that they must follow. So, even if the news is wrong, we can make a claim through the Press Council, because we have the right and freedom to obtain information, without having to kill the medium. Since the killing of media means injure ourselves as citizens
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