A very large population of Indonesia has given extremely strong stressing to the nation whose no powerful and high-discipline governance. As a result, the huge population has become such a potential. Rather, it has remained a burden in many areas such as economy, politics, ecology, and culture.

Dealing with the absent of nationally pro-people economic policies, all of the national economic activities orienting solely to the growth of capital owners have now made workers untouchable. This has in turn caused such terrible pauperization. As the populous country, the government should implement economic developments through the principle of even distribution to boost the developments in any sectors.

<>At the same time, the orientation of industrial developments should be also directed to works-based industry to absorb workers as many as possible. Hopefully, there would be even prosperity. Unfortunately, what has been done by the government shows its involvement more in capital-based manufactory industries that require both the capital and machine. This would then make many educated workers become unemployees. They in turn work as the servants in informal sectors or stay abroad as the Indonesia’s workers.  

The moment of recent lebaran showed as seen during previous one that the density of the flow of demography during travel home (mudik) and back to city. Unfortunately, the government and observers have often assumed inaccurately that there were reasons why the millions of people going back to city cause the increase of newcomers in Jakarta. Besides, many of them were then attempting such reruralization along with the travel home period to live life in their hometowns. It’s true, that there were some returning to city to replace the position of the previous comers just to, say that, seek such experience in the capital.   

Anxiety is unnecessary as experienced by numbers of officials in Jakarta. If there was rocketing urbanization, the newcomers could not be blamed. What should be understood is that the government policy in determining the orientation of the development targeting both the growth of city interests. Even, the bigger of the city, the bigger of its portion in developments. Consequently, Jakarta as the country’s biggest city should of course welcome the very huge numbers of urbanization. It would then receive the demographic density. 

While small cities more over villages would no longer be powerful in economy. There, any developments in agricultural sectors all of the time face global markets being allowed by the government to operate in such a way. Even with various reasons, the government facilitate the flow of goods coming from overseas to devastate the people’s products either in agricultural or industrial sector. When the farmers harvest, the government try to import rice so its price tends to decline as the last imported sugar carried out by the government resulting in sugar cane farmers and sugar industry in vulnerable condition.

All this conditions occur, again, because of the government policy disorienting to the national and people-based works, but orienting to what called as calo (mediator) for mafia of sugar and rice both nationally and internationally. The mentality of being servant (jongos) and coolie has been experienced by the government and academes of ours to import such things that are not only required but also threaten our nation’s calm.

The imbalance can be overcome by strengthening the developments in regions so that the distribution of opportunity and prosperity can be achieved. Through the point of view, the people’s creativity would also increase, not through the recent regional autonomy. It has ironically produced fresh and powerful predators in creating the social imbalance in the regions.

Respecting the even distribution of the prosperity, the nation’s density may be huge potentials. They can become such creative men and not being as burdens. All this depends on how the government manage the power especially in determining its policies. As the fourth most populous country, Indonesia needs to manage the flow of demography being running so the inhabitants do not focus on one place, but can be distributed to another proportionally. (Mun’im DZ)