At this point, Murhalim spoke up. “If you have finished presenting your basic ideas, Pranoto, may I say something?”
“There are still a few aspects of the problem I haven’t touched on, but I’ll be able to bring them up in the discussion later. It’s all right by me if you speak now.”
Murhalim looked at the group. “First, I’d like to observe that although the problem of Western technology certainly exists for our intellectuals, we stress this problem far too much. It’s as though we’ve been bewitched by the West. It’s almost as if we’re radios tuned in to a single wave length, receiving broadcasts from only one station—the West. For me the question is, why the West? And, as I see it, this continued orientation to the West won’t lead us anywhere. Don’t you realize that eighty or ninety per ce
