In my country, Indonesia, it's very rare to find somebody who can speak up for any mistake that a higher authority made. It's a custom in Indonesia to keep quiet and never get involved with big problems, especially with the higher authority because they have money and power everywhere, so there's no use being against them. It's like throwing a stone into a deep well, without any "sound." However, if somebody tries to talk and give an accurate, critical opinion, they will counter it and say "I did nothing wrong" or sometimes they even blame their mistake on somebody else. It seems like they want to show their authority and always pretend to be faultless in people's eyes. I have had experience going against higher authorities in Indonesia, my teachers while I was in high school.
This event happened when I was seventeen years old. It was my senior year of high school. Like in any other school, my school had a tradition of making a yearbook for the graduating students. Therefore, all of us needed to have our pictures taken. We assumed that we wouldn't have class that day because of this "big event" of taking pictures. However, our headmaster seemed to have a different way of thinking. Our plans of getting up late and going off to the mall in the afternoon fell apart instantly. He expected us to come at 7:00 in the morning, study, change from our uniforms into suits and ties, take our pictures, change back into the uniforms, and continue our classes for the rest of the day. In many years before our year, he never made that kind of decision which would make students disappointed. His order sounded so ridiculous that we decided to go against it.
My friends and I knew that going against him would be so difficult. He has a thousand and one words and reasons that he could use to explain his position; we couldn't ever win an argument with him. He was also very conservative and stuck up. Because that was our last year, all the students agreed to change him into a better principal. Nobody, I mean nobody showed up at 7:00 that day. All of us came at 10:00 only to have our pictures made. It was very hard for all the students to make that stupid decision because we had never taken this kind of action before. Fear had always chased us before that day.
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