{"id":66995,"date":"2017-06-17T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66995"},"modified":"2017-06-16T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T23:13:06","slug":"job-opportunity-vacancy-for-a-leader-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/17\/job-opportunity-vacancy-for-a-leader-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"JOB OPPORTUNITY- VACANCY FOR A LEADER IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

What has happened to Sri Lanka in many ways can be drawn as a parallel to what did happen in Indonesia.\u00a0 Prez Soeharto developed the nation, cost of living was affordable, religious extremism well managed, retained East Timor in spite of Western push.<\/p>\n

What was lacking. Though he did lot of good work, in later years, he became a problem than a problem solver.\u00a0 Famous “KKN” korupsi, kolusi, nepotisme destroyed his government. He restricted political parties to 3, Golkar (his own party), Partai Pembangunan Persatuan (United Development Party) and PDI (partai Democrasi Indonesia).<\/p>\n

After toppling Soeharto, a well respected Muslim Gus Dur, a Blind Old Man, was appointed Prez.\u00a0 He was portrayed like a saviour of the Nation and a saviour of Democracy by the Western World and by well\u00a0 \u00a0educated Indonesians such as Dr Amein Rais.\u00a0 This strategy was \u00a0very similar to portraying Maithreepala\u00a0 as a saviour of Democracy and a compassionate Leader, far superior than Prez Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

It took couple of decades for Prez Soeharto to become corrupt, but it took around 18 months for Gus Dur to become most corrupt and inefficient leader. Unemployment became the worse enemy of the nation, cost of living sky rocketed, labour unrest almost daily, increase in number of political parties from\u00a0 3 to 16, increase in number of newspapers from 2 to almost 12, massive decrease in Foreign Direct Investment.\u00a0\u00a0 Americans were only interested in toppling Prez Soeharto, but did not help the economy afterwards, just like in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Just like Maithreepala Sirisena was seen eating his lunch on a Banana Leaf, Gus Dur was seen wearing pyjamas and lousy shorts in bright day light, facing media. Gus Dur wanted to be the leader of Common Man, just like Maithreepala.<\/p>\n

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His love affair with a young woman came to the spotlight.\u00a0 Created confusion at the Presidential Palace issuing conflicting\u00a0 policy statements, just like what is happening in Sri Lanka now.<\/p>\n

Gus Dur was an ardent supporter of Megawati Soekarnoputri, the two political parties PKB and PDI-P worked together.\u00a0 But Gur Dur back stabbed Megawati, just like Maithreepala to Mahinda, to become President by joining with Golkar and PPP.\u00a0 Once again this is parallel to Maithreepala joining with the UNP, just to become the Prez.<\/p>\n

The very same Dr Amein Rais team impeached Gus Dur.\u00a0 Gus Dur refused to leave the Palace for couple of weeks.\u00a0 He became a JOKER, just like Maithreepala.\u00a0 Dr Amien Rais destroyed his own political fortunes in the process,\u00a0 just like some of the Professors in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Today once again the Political Machine of Prez Soeharto, the Golkar Party is quite popular amongst Indonesians.<\/p>\n

In Asia we had few great leaders.\u00a0 Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Mahatir, Prez Mahinda Rajapakse.\u00a0 Though some may dislike Prez Soeharto, he transformed Indonesia with an iron hand.<\/p>\n

Without a leader like Prez Soeharto, the vast archipelago with 18307 islands would disintegrated many years ago, if Prez Soeharto was not power, just like Sri Lanka would have\u00a0 disintegrated if Prez Mahinda Rajapakse was not in power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quote:<\/p>\n

\u00a0The only\u00a0definition\u00a0of a\u00a0leader\u00a0is someone who has followers.\u201d …Prof.\u00a0 Peter Drucker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE What has happened to Sri Lanka in many ways can be drawn as a parallel to what did happen in Indonesia.\u00a0 Prez Soeharto developed the nation, cost of living was affordable, religious extremism well managed, retained East Timor in spite of Western push. What was lacking. Though he did lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}