https://rizkyar.com/tags/politics/Recent content in Politics on Rizky A.R.Hugoen-usWed, 19 Aug 2026 19:35:00 +0700https://rizkyar.com/writings/brokenmentalsofthearchipelago/Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:35:00 +0700https://rizkyar.com/writings/brokenmentalsofthearchipelago/Indonesia is riddled with societal dysfunctions. This can be partly explained by the fact that authority figures in Indonesia have some kind of dysfunctional personalities stemming from a broken mental schema that was never fixed. I state this both out of cynicism, and a sincere feeling-based observation of how public life is treated in our society. Young professionals, students, labourers, and honest entrepreneurs of MSMEs have to contend with an arbitrary administration who seems to love senseless policy-making, and a nation whose institution are generally hostile to those who questions its authority.https://rizkyar.com/writings/religionisnotrace/Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:35:00 +0700https://rizkyar.com/writings/religionisnotrace/In Indonesia, religion is considered as a sacred dimension of human life - which is not ideal. Based on the principle of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity) and the post-reformation institutionalization of Pancasila, the religious dimension is left to the people of Indonesia. However, this seemingly individualistic and preferential treatment of religion has - since the fall of the Suharto regime - been treated in the same collectivist and weirdly conservative way as one would treat a person’s race.https://rizkyar.com/writings/tobreakanation/Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://rizkyar.com/writings/tobreakanation/This essay was originally published in Jakarta Philosophy It is widely understood in the social sciences that a nation is essentially a community united via social interactions and symbols that relies on the imagination of its people. This is also known as the Andersonian view of nationalism. The title of this article demands an elaboration because it expects to be able to dismantle the nations constructed via Andersonian nationalism. This article, however, proposes that through the same widely-understood sense as Anderson’s definition of a nation, destroying or breaking apart a nation requires the destruction of the social interactions, symbols, and the very imagination of its people.