An English essay made by group B2 A2011 Government Planned to Conduct Compulsory Military Service for Indonesian Employees Military

service or conscription is often abbreviated as liability for a young citizen, between 1 !2" years, for holding guns and ta#e part in military education$ %onscripts are usually held in order to improve discipline, toughness, courage and independence$ &sually it held for men but there are also states that re'uire women, such as (srael, )orth *orea, and +uriname$ (f the citizens do not ,oin the conscript, they will be ,ailed for one to two years, e-cept students, unhealthy person get permission to not ,oin$ +everal years ago, government made a controversial statement that (ndonesia would have military service$ .f course, it made some pro!contra among the people$ +ome of them are agree and another are disagree$ %onscription is able to create a discipline citizen, reduce (ndonesian citizen who was spoiled and not resilient, and bring bac# the nic#name of (ndonesia as a tiger Asia$ (n contrast, it is swelling budget for defense and security sector because the budget for building a dorm, recruitment costs, training costs and training costs imposed during the draftee from the state budget$ %ompulsory military service also ta#e a long time so the budget automatically be larger$ E-ercise cost for participant is budgeted about /0 million while the participant lead the e-ercise during twice so total cost for everybody is 00 million$ 1hat cost used to buy four pairs of shoes, clothes and pants, arms and ammunition, foods, medical personnel, medicine, and payment for the trainer$ (t is better for the money to build school building to improve our education sector$ 1here are some simple 'uestions to be as#ed about it 2do we really need compulsory service34 And then, 2why the government planned to conduct compulsory military service ,ust for indonesia employees34 1ubagus 5asanuddin 67ice %hairman of %ommission ( of the 5ouse of 8epresentatives9 said, 2:hy that sub,ect ,ust conscription civil servants and wor#ers$ :hy for artists or entrepreneurs may not be sub,ect to compulsory military service3; +o this is considered as a discriminatory section$ <urthermore, impact for the family who their children follow compulsory military$ 1he family actually feel afraid about who will give the basic necessities of their life$ (f the government can give a cover for family needs, its all enough3 (ndonesia =overnment had a lot of

problem because monetary, they also couldn>t cover all the family needs$ Maybe it will be good for un!employee to ta#e part to #illing their time while waiting for the ,ob$ Another impact for individual is can ma#e serious problem$ 1he Employees usually busy with their wor#s, they rarely to do basic e-ercise li#e ,ogging, ,umping, and etc$ .ff course their body no more strength to do the military e-ercise$ 1he wea# bodies can>t be strength instantly, always there accident which intentional or unintentional and also une-pected incident$ +eriously in,ury even to death can be worse$ 5ow does the government solve it3 %ompulsory military service can ma#e (ndonesia ready to face war$ :ith conscription, they will #now how to use guns, fight, and confronted with military force$ According ?eputy chief of the regional delegation 6?@?9, Aa .de (da, that compulsory military service is re'uired if the country has a huge threat while (ndonesia doesn>t have a significant threats$ According to indonesian>s observer of security,4(ndonesia don>t have a serious war threat until 10 or 1B years4 so 'uantity of army is unimportant now$ (ncrease the 'uality of security technology is better than increase the 'uantity$ )ot only can safe the national budget,but also it will increase s#ill of national army$ (ndonesian has assertiveness with not tolerate violenceby deploying military$ :ith the principle of free and active foreign relations, indeed (ndonesian should maintain good relations and not offend honor another state$ (n other words, (ndonesian is love peace and very good relations with any state$ Actually the purpose of the compulsory military in (ndonesia is a positive program$ (ndonesian government wants better prepared to face a threat$ But if you loo# at the current state of (ndonesia both in the economic and social, compulsory milliter is a program that is not too important and will be more negative than the positive$ +o, we remain on our opinion that the compulsory milliter in (ndonesia to date there is still appropriate and would cause a lot of negative things$