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Veritas Vincit


My friend just got temporarily suspended from his academic life, just because his campus thinks his movie screening event was 'provocative.' The movies he was screening were about the late Munir, an Indonesian human rights defender that was killed on his way to NL.

 Are those movies provocative? Yes. Does that necessarily make them bad? No. Because the movies are telling the truth about injustice and impunity.

 Similar things are happening everywhere, even to a noble teacher like Pak Dika who's trying to speak the truth about the extortion and injustice in the school he's working at.

 What happened to him? Pak Dika got fired for speaking the truth, which is 'provocative' enough to be a defamation for the school he used to work at.

 We need to understand that provocative isn't always bad or threatening. Even in my friend's case, as a form of art the movies were meant to 'provoke' our soul, thoughts, awareness, dignity and our sense of justice. Why should we limit our ways of conveying the truth?

 What matters is the message, and how are we delivering it. Does it contain hate and lies or love and truth? Are you delivering it with no intention of demeaning anyone? 

 Sadly, sometimes the truth of injustice is mistaken as hate and lies.

 Powerful individuals or bodies have too much to lose. Therefore they tend to fear the truth of 'provocative' injustice, which makes us started questioning instead of obeying them.

 But whether it's our campus or our government, the relation between the governor and the governed shouldn't be built under fear and lies.

 Fear and lies will turn us against each other. In a world full of differences, truth is our way to stand together and collaborate for justice.

 So do we deserve to be punished for spreading the 'provocative' truth of injustice? No.

 Whatever the truth is, there's always a nobility in revealing one.

 Veritas vincit!
The truth shall prevail.
Btw, you can help Pak Dika by signing this petition:

 https://www.change.org/p/prof-dr-muhadjir-effendy-kembalikan-pak-dika-sebagai-pengajar-dan-stop-intimidasi-siswa?recruiter=664279985&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=line

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