by Cornelius Susanto (016201200005)
Hi fellow
readers! As we know that it is 3 days to go for the presidential election. And
soon, our beloved president, Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will no longer be our
Head of State and Head of Government. Now as an international student, I think
it’s time for the “hard-talk”. So, on today’s talk, I will try to analyze about
Mr. Susilo’s leadership skills, as also on my 4th semester of
learning, I have already studied about how to analyze a leader’s leadership
skill based on much kind of aspects.
SO!!! The first
opinion that comes through my mind about Mr. Susilo is about his attitude and
behavior of being so prestige and taking care about his image of being so soft,
in which this has made him lack of firmness of being the face of our country
and this has given impact to the decision that he has done because in my
opinion he is too afraid to have bad reputation in his image, so that almost
all of his decision is categorized as a safe usual decision and lack of extreme
decision that could enhance our country’s prosperity more.
Beside
that the perception of Mr. Susilo about the enhancement of economy to have a
prosper life of the people is too high, in which he uses to forget about the
other aspect of having harmonize life, which one of them is the lack of
infrastructure development in our country. Even though we can see that each
year we gain more than 6% economy development, and it has been the highest
after the new order, it seems that our people is not prosper, and he hasn’t
given a term of good governance, since we still have a lot of environmental
issues, bad infrastructure (even we can see from our lame transportation
facility), and especially the high cost for political activities such as the
election. This has also bring the fact of Mr. Susilo’s perception that he is
too afraid of being out of his comfort zone, in which he always looks for the
safe way and cause him to choose any kind of party, as long as they agree with
his statement, and it violates the term of equality in which it should be
prioritize to have a prosper equal life. Even we can see that this kind of
issues that still stress the term of equality in the issues that newly
happened, in which such as the cancellation of Lady Gaga concert last year, and
the removal of Miss World 2013 to Bali, in which this is caused because of the
threat of FPI towards those events. This shows how the soft attitude/behavior
of Mr. Susilo and the perception of Mr. Susilo that affect him to stay in his
comfort zone not to take an extreme brave decision such as giving warn or even
punishment to those people, in which it causes the violation of equality that
should not be had by all the people of Indonesia, and once again this shows how
silly his attitude of being so calm even in this issues that is categorized as
a smaller issue than any other political issues, but indeed this shows how our
people will gain prosperity.
The picture of our President crying in public (which i think it's a BIG NO)
In
the other hand, beside all of those vague skills of leadership, I would also
say that Mr. Susilo has done some efforts that give him a plus point in terms
of his leadership skill. Especially when we talk about our economy condition,
in which some facts such as our foreign debt to IMF have been erased, the
increase of our devise, the increase number of our foreign investment, and etc.
Also due to the fact that he comes from an educational family and raised very
educationally, it can be seen that he is very good in doing such as diplomatic
stuffs such as his speech and his intelligence to face his opposition, in which
this has made him as a soft power within other nations.
Lastly,
I would once again said that there is no such as a perfect person in this
world, so does Mr. Susilo, I would say that he has what it takes to be a
leader, since he has done some efforts toward Indonesia and their development,
but his factors of leadership skills such as his behavior, perceptions, and his
emotional situation are rather decreasing his leadership skills. In which it
can be seen from the most simple example of him, such as whenever Mr. Susilo
starts crying in front of public showing his emotional situation, it shows that
he is so soft and not showing that he is a tough leader, cause in my own
opinion a leader should not showing his or her tears towards his or her people,
because it will tear people’s confidence towards him, or in the other words he
is too showing his fluffy soft heart in which once again it is not okay. And
lastly, considering whether he is a good leader or not due to all of these
arguments, I would say that he is a one step below than word “good” or more to
an “okay” leader and it will be categorized as a word “good” or even “better”
if he changes his leadership’s aspect become a tough and risk-taker leader,
because that is all we need to be our leader.
So who will be our next President? will he be tough and not crying in the public? Let's pray for the best :) SEE YA on the next post
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