With the culture, religious, and bio diversity, Indonesia is a perfect reflection of world greatest challenge: harnessing global diversity. #PL
Globalization dominates our era, but it is an increasingly fragile dominance. #PL
Global integration delivers benefits: growing wealth, technology, the rise of people in the developing world, etc. #PL
But it also creates new risks: financial instability, economic imbalances, environmental stresses, inequalities, etc. #PL
Market and technology are pushing us together, but political pressures risk pulling us apart. #PL
Lamy
quoted Marx about capitalism’s inherent tension and contradictions.
Market capitalism contains the seed of its own destruction. #PL
Market capitalism transforms economies: innovation, risk-taking, competition, the survival of the economically fittest. #PL
But market capitalism also has power to disrupt, overturn, and breed social insecurity and conflict. #PL
An integrated global economy requires political consensus and cooperation to sustain it. #PL
By
transforming the economic and social order, globalized market
capitalism also risks weakening the political foundation on which it
rests. #PL
But the answer is not Marxist revolution. It’s political evolution, re-embedding markets in a re-invented social and political order. #PL
Globalization is a revolutionary
force. Open and interconnect world, that wealth is spreading, knowledge
is expanding, health is improving. #PL
Yet, globalization remains a discontented dream. The recent financial crisis, the worried about unemployment, the safety of food. #PL
Re-inventing our institutions is not about building more agencies. It’s about networking institutions in a better way. #PL
This leads to the challenge of policy coherence. As the world has grown more integrated and policy making has become more complicated. #PL
The real challenge today is to change our way of thinking, not just our system, institutions or policies. #PL
The future lies with more globalization, more cooperation, more interaction between peoples and cultures. #PL
It’s “unity in our global diversity”, or to quote Indonesia’s national motto: “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika”, that we need today. #PL
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