Indonesia’s Got Talent

At last all we want is the mission is accomplished, the goal is achieved, and the target is done at all cost and by any means.

Of late our spirit is going high as our national soccer team, until the semifinal, surprisingly wins every match in AFF Cup. This nation expects much for the first time in our soccer history; the team will triumph over Malaysia in the final and be the winner in this tournament.

The analysis why the team is different this time is PSSI have recruited naturalized player, namely Christian Gonzales and Irfan Bachdim. The two players have elevated the zeal of the team. Particularly, Christian Gonzales is the much-needed goal getter who has contributed the only goal in each leg of semifinal.

We must praise PSSI for the belated breakthrough. Recruiting foreigners is not novel way in soccer. Singapore had done this for years and we see how Singapore's team becomes superior in ASEAN. The Philippines has done more drastically by inviting 9 Britons to join their national team, despite some of them are Filipino descendent.

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The idea is definitely simple: if you can't do it by yourself, then ask someone else to do it. The power of immigrant prevails, not only in Indonesia but all over the world.

American government invites the best scientists in the world and talented immigrants on regular basis. American business is immigrants-powered business. China invites the best company in the world to invest in its special economic zones and harness its world's biggest market. Chinese business is also foreign companies-powered business.

Some of us have wild idea. If we let the foreigner join our national soccer team, why we don't let them join our bureaucracy. It will bring us new way to manage our country.

When we think of the best bureaucracy, we should think about Singapore. Thanks to their effective, efficient and clean management, Singapore becomes the first class, rich and corruption-free country in the world. Let us hire them, retired Singaporean bureaucrats. Let them teach us how to develop healthy and well-organized bureaucracy and eventually grow our economy.

Bear in mind Deng Xiaoping that it doesn't matter black cat or white cat as long as it catches mice.

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