Backward motion

Without learning capacity, a nation moving like zombies. Growth was followed by his physical appearance spiritual development. Outside view of the progress of modern civilization we immediately echoed, without mastering the reasoning system.
As a good imitator of the fashion trends of the world, we often feel and style as an advanced nation. In fact, substantively, not unlike that experienced Peterpan Tub fixation to the phase of 'childhood' (ignorance). In fact it could be worse.
In the cultural strategy, we tend to keep the bad and the good cast.
Kian days, residents of the metropolitan cities in Indonesia kellihan becoming trapped in the network. Together with escalation built components of growth in any place, cavities "agora" (public space) as an arena of collective learning, exchange of ideas, creativity and culture increasingly narrow.
Public space, which is coveted by Habermas, as an arena of rational discourse, free and equal without hampered by inequalities in the power of money, increasingly marginalized by the penetration of capital. Without a healthy public space, the big cities in Indonesia can not grow as the policies of high civilized like Venice or Paris. But he stopped as a 'forest' of concrete into a convenient site for the proliferation of so-called Al-Farabi as a "city of the Pagan" (al-Jaahiliyyah almudun).
Grandchildren Enlightenment
This movement backwards in the development of our civilization. Big cities (modern) such as Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, and Medan, originally grew as a biological grandchild from the spirit of enlightenment in Europe. Along with consolidation of Dutch colonial rule in the 19th century, public spaces and social institutions style 'enlightenment' began sowing in the archipelago. "European" style primary schools, started construction in Weltevreden (Menteng), Jakarta in 1817. In the same year the Botanical Gardens in Buitenzorg (Bogor) and institutes associated with it was established. Along with that, social clubs (Societeit) grew up in several cities: Harmonie and Concordia in Jakarta, De Vereeniging in Yogyakarta, as well as several others in Surabaya and Bandung. Birth of These institutions together with the emergence of print media, the Dutch scientific journals (both published in Indian and imported from Europe), as well as libraries and publishing houses from the social clubs.
Sosiabilitas new forms, along with the knowledge infrastructure and public space that accompanies it, allows cities and towns in the archipelago merkantil exposed to traffic information, knowledge, and global culture that provides a basis for the growth of civilized cosmopolitan cities high.
Achieving wealth
without meritocracy,
corrupt culture of childbirth,
superficial appreciation
cultural and
anti-intellectualism.
Remember the quality of education being produced. For the primary school level only (such as ELS), students have been given some foreign language. For secondary school (HBS kind), the curriculum is very rigorous, not less powerful than a European education, with a high failure rate even for Dutch people themselves. Anyway with such a high quality, the son of Indonesia such as Agus Salim is able to appear as the best graduates from all of the existing HBS; gave evidence that if you get a good vehicle for learning, the Indonesian people can excel.
Remember the quality and quantity of research. Dr. Eijkman, winner of the Nobel Prize in science in 1929, doing research in Indonesia, even had the lead and the Bacteriological Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy (established 1886) in this country. Do not forget, the plantation owner played an active role in promoting research centers. For example, Bosscha Observatory in Bandung (founded by a tea plantation owner), Rubber Research Institute in Bogor (by association rubber plantations)
Until the late 1930s, has stood at least 26 highly reputable research institutes. When it happens to the world economic depression of the 1930s, many of the best scientists of Europe and the United States who migrated to Indonesia, and found what they called the scientific paradise. It is not surprising that science journals published in Indonesia at that time very famous throughout the world, particularly those relating to research tropical plants. Even when the Japanese came in, a library in New York deliberately established to continue to collect scientific works from Indonesia.
'Respublica Litterarial'
Also recalled the government's initiative to encourage interest in writing and reading. Establishment of Balai Pustaka in 1917 with the translation project gives an example of that. Whatever the hidden agenda behind its establishment, the presence of BP play an important role in the provision of reading materials are cheap for a general audience in the Indies.
In addition, BP also functions as a staging ground for the Literati permagangan 'Bumiputera' un tuk imitate the Western literary tradition. This replication process opens the way for the Indian Literati keterpautan into the universal spirit 'Respublica litteraria'.
As a result, in line with the growth of the urban bourgeoisie, also grow pockets of knowledge and cultural creativity. "High class" became a buffer of "high culture". Not surprisingly, the quality of our civilization is the measure of progress, at least for the Southeast Asian region.
Compare with Malaysia. Until the early 20th century, the coastal towns in this country more populated by people of Europe, China and other newcomers. Because the best knowledge of the infrastructure established in the cities, the nation Melayu far behind in terms of education. Later, the will to advance the nation Melayu encourage their governments, to bring the teaching staff from Indonesia, which is more advanced and more accepted because of cultural proximity.
However, the development of big cities in Indonesia today is really deviated from architecture built originally. The explosion of new rich people (high grade) in urban areas was not followed by the growth of "high culture". The achievement of wealth without the corrupt culture of meritocracy childbirth, shallow appreciation of cultural and anti-intellectualism.
Fragile infrastructure cognitive consequences of weakening the capacity of society to bring a critical discourse on the level of political society, even within civil society. If Allowing this retreat, route history of Indonesia will continue to move in a no sane: defense is bad, good throw.