GREED FOR POWER By Mahesa Sidarta EXTREME POWER The purpose of power is to serve, not to overpower and oppress the people in the name of service. Each of the responsible citizens do not abdicate power but delegate to representative trustees by at elections. Elected representatives of the Legislature, and power holders in the Executive and the Public Administration and the Judiciary are delegated the power of sovereignty of the people and they should use that power for the well-being and progress of all the citizens and their common homeland. In the modern state power is delegated on the basis of humanness and not on grounds of race, religion, language or gender. ‘Sovereignty is not a mantra or a political incantation to be bandied about by less than honest politicians in the face of foreign powers who as citizens of the human world and as neighbours demand that our own citizens’ demands for human dignity and rights be respected and not annihilated by foolish and irrational ...