2009 to 2016 is the lapse time of 7 years. In 7 years, European Union faced some redundance problems, for instance the issue of unemployment, nuclear, borders, racism, etc., but mostly political analysts say Europe now face the new issues, mainly terrorism, that leads to immigration policy.
Terrorism came up in European Union, based on my preliminary research, is because of the Liberty concept of European Union. As an Indonesian Catholic, I think European Union gives liberty to all people of being they wanted to be, of being atheist, of being homosexual, of being communist, of being etc, etc.
Being atheist, homosexual, and communist are absolutely restricted in Indonesia. We do not have a spoken Law to prohibit those issues, but in social life, Indonesians with those issues can not get their best position in life, nor the great feeling to speak up. I do not know exactly what those feeling because I am not an atheist, I am not homosexual, and I am not communist, but I have been studying European contemporary history and I can say that way.
This kind of “liberty concept” of European Union, at critical point, manifested in the increasing number of job-seekers and scholars coming to Europe. Indonesians feel “cool” to go to Europe. I feel also. We sacrifice more than 15 millions Rupiahs (Equal to 1.500 Euro) for round-trip flights to go to Europe just to see different perspectives of life.
This kind of “liberty concept” is not also a core point of problem. Liberty is not given, but taken by victories in long wars in European history. I appreciate that. I appreciate European Union. I want to stress out that the real “cassus belli”of the misuse of Liberty is the uncontrolled international politic diplomacy of European Union leaders.
Based on international politic analysis of Anne Apelbaum, Hans J. Morgenthau, and Kofi Annan, without the intention of generalising nor dramatising, Europeans had won some diplomacies by taking wars for fighting Liberty. Germanisation, Stalinisation, and Americanization were passed away in European history and by redefining its identity, European Union turns into Globalization with the full Liberty of independence Europeans, that becoming one unity later, to balance international politic and to promise a more liberty life.
On the eyes of Indonesian Catholic in Europe, Europeans liberty has some steps of acceptance. In some parts of Europe, individual liberty is shown up without a prior notice, but in some parts of Europe, liberty only means citizenship liberty, for example a state guarantees the liberty of their people from terrorism or other bad things, but the government does not accept individual liberty, even ban Europeans who convert into Islam. This will discuss later.
Poland-Indonesia
Poland is one of Indonesia strategic partnership countries in Visegraad areas. In Flores, located in Eastern part of Indonesia, there are many Polish Catholic priests who are living and give services for more than 40 years and they love living in Indonesia and love Indonesian people. While I was in Poland, nothing surprise me, because I am catholic, so Poland’s catholic mentality that manifested in architecturs, churches, books, paintings, etc., just automatically came out from my heart, just Alice see her own figure on the mirror. Of course I have some bad feeling while some Polish people do “racism look” in my Asia’s skin, but overall I feel okay. Bardzo dobrze!
Slovakia-Indonesia
Many Indonesians do not know that Slovakia was already separated from Czech Republic. In Indonesia I also never know what Slovakia-Indoneia relationship ever do. I only know there is Slovak Embassy who give summer scholarship each year for Asians who want to study Slovak. That’s it.
