Kontroversi Peluncuran Beasiswa Chan – Sukumaran

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Pemberitaan media tentang beasiswa Chan Sukumaran. Photo: Dok. pribadi

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Pemberitaan media terkait beasiswa Chan-sukumaran. Photo. Dok Pribadi

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Pemberitaan lainnya. Photo: dok pribadi

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Wakil presiden Jusuf Kalla juga berkomentar bahwa jika besiswa ini diberikan untuk menghargai pahlawan Australia atau ilmuwan terpandang dia sangat mendukungnya, akan tetapi pemberian beasiswa untuk mengenang  terpidana mati ini tidak pantas.

Sementara itu Ross Taylor dari Australian Indonesia Institute yang berbasis di Perth mengatakan "Saya pikir penawaran beasiswa yang terkait dengan bali nine sangat mengejutkan dan aneh. Ide seperti ini tentunya akan diterima dengan presepsi yang berbeda di Indonesia"

Menanggapai semua kritikan ini Prof Greg Craven tetap mempertahankan idenya dengan mengatakan "adalah pendapat yang sangat bodoh jika seseorang yang telah melakukan tindakan kriminal tidak berharga untuk dikenang sisi kemanusiannya"

"Beasiswa ini bukan untuk mengenang mereka sebagai penyelundup narkoba, akan tetapi mengenang sisi kemanusiaannya" tambahnya

Lantas bagaimana komentar dan tanggapan masyarakat Australia terhadap peluncuran beasiswa ini ? berikut sebagian diantaranya:

• Kez Za : This is getting beyond a joke now!
• John Iffland :  Has the world gone insane?! What's next? The Schapelle Corby Medal of Honour
• Brian Jones : Convicted drug runners get a scholarship. ? Somebody needs to wake up. What next? a State funeral?
• Marcel Zada : This is pathetic. Stop glorifying criminals!
• Arti Gill : THEY ARE DRUG SMUGGLERS ! Have the university gone mad !! What about scholarship in the name of our service men ??? That gave up their lives....Australia has gone mad !! AFP you did a great job ! If they got caught they would have gotten a slap on the back Our soft Australian Criminal System...
• Vicki McInnes Macey : courage? seriously? what a lot of BS, maybe they should honor someone who deserves to be honored not convicted drug smugglers
• Noura Ridha : you'd think that these guys were saints the way that everyone is carrying on. wake up world, these guys were criminals, who i daresay would have continued to sell drugs had they not been caught. They chose to take drugs to a country that is renowned fo...
• Damien Brindle : FFS I dont believe in the death penalty but this is absurd... They were DRUG DEALERS FFS
• Danni O'Meara :  Are you farkkkking shitting me?!?! This is disgraceful! They are not heroes! They do not deserve the plaudits that are being thrown their way! They are drug smuggling criminals!!! Who cared nothing for the lives they ruined and the ones they would have...
• Chris Allen : We currently have over 3000 homeless veterans who desperately need our help and our respect. This move by the ACU is appalling.
• Brian Cameron : Are you f#cking kidding me? Absolute disgrace.