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Purifying the Country

Soon after enjoying the sacred occasion of Idul Fitri, our inner spiritual clarity immediately encountered the pollution of political competition. Like the dew that glistens upon withered leaves, our return from Idul Fitri this time has emerged into a situation that risks our "sanctity".

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YUDI LATIF
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Thousands of residents perform Idul Fitri 1439 H prayers at Astrid Field, Bogor Botanical Garden, West Java, Friday (15/6/2018). President Joko Widodo, First Lady Mrs. Iriana and a number of Cabinet ministers also conducted their Idul Fitri prayers at that location.

Soon after enjoying the sacred occasion of Idul Fitri, our inner spiritual clarity immediately encountered the pollution of political competition. Like the dew that glistens upon withered leaves, our return from Idul Fitri this time has emerged into a situation that risks our "sanctity". Individuals may be reborn like drops of dew, but the country they live in is a contaminated space.

The public sphere is contaminated because people fight over individual interests while ignoring the common good. Many people long to return to the basic nature of humanity by denying their very nature. Differences become the foundations of dispute. In fact, our differences form the basis of our lives: religions will never be as one, races and tribes will never be as one, even societal classes will never be as one.

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