As old proverb goes two head is better than one head. To carry out the big job, the more people are needed. And based on research, only suitable character can fuse different people in a team and get the result. And that character is: Trust.
Many Indonesians tend to bicker. It's an irony. Indonesians are oft-touted having a culture of teamwork – dubbed gotong royong in Bahasa. This proves wrong due to persistent bickering in all area. Bickering, instead of gotong royong, is markedly our real lifestyle.
The last fuss surprisingly occurred in sports management – the area where conflict should be resolved through sportsmanship.
Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) bans Arifin Panigoro-led Indonesia Premier League (LPI), because it competes with PSSI-managed Liga Super Indonesia (LSI). Sadly, it happens when public give much attention and have a great expectation on the heels of Indonesia's team good performance.
Previously, political spat is ordinary news. There is no big political party free from political rift which never comes to terms. The last case is among National Awakening Party (PKB) cadres – Yahya Muhaimin-led group versus Yenny Wahid-led group scrambling for party's leadership. Regional leader elections did the same. The losers usually leveled charges of vote-rigging and mobilized mass holding protest and then ending with riots.
Bizarrely, even among the lawyers – who know well on solving problems through negotiation and agreement – have 2 (two) contending lawyer groups, PERADI versus KAI.
In short, our country has seen bickering everywhere engulfing politics, sports and other social life.
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Bickering reflects distrust among people. A society rife with it hardly achieves a big goal. American social thinker, Francis Fukuyama, put forward trust as the underlying character of the most advanced country. Fukuyama connected trust with the existence of large scale corporation.
It makes sense. To manage hundreds of thousands employees, delegation of power is the key. And to delegate authority inevitably means to trust.
This criteria – the ability to form world' biggest corporations – put United States, German and Japan as high trust societies. In these countries, non-kin relationship has expedited business activities and eventually makes the country's companies growing bigger.
In contrast, China, France, Korea and Italy are considered as low trust nation. In this case, people prefer not to trust anyone so that the big companies come from either unsustainable family business or government sponsorship.
Seeing what has happened, Indonesia is undoubtedly considered as low trust society. Propelled by this self-consciousness, Indonesia's society should find a solution to handle this bad genetic trait.
Chinese, French, Korean practices have paved the way how to deal with distrust. To keep everything running in order, the government should intervene. The government-sponsored initiatives have a bigger chance to succeed. My two cents, Indonesia should follow this path.
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