No doubt if all countries should go
through the globalization era in this world, and there is no country that would
be able to escape from it. Thus, the relationship among nations becomes the
most important thing in achieving each own goal when the globalization comes
up. On the one hand, during this globalization world, it has become the common issue
that a country should build cooperative relations with another country and extremely
requires a hand of another to support the growth of globalization. It then
becomes such important thing that can be used as a tool to find out the social
changes. If we try to see the globalization through the economic perspective,
the international market offers more and more job opportunities for people and
it indirectly raises the income for the government and here globalization
becomes something promising for a country to improve sustainable economic
development.
However, in this movie, The New Rules of the World, globalization
becomes the reasons for international branded-companies to widen their wings in
Indonesia. And, the existences of these branded-companies require many workers
and labors of Indonesia to support the need of the companies, let’s say Nike,
GAP, Old Navy, and Reebok (as what mentioned in the movie). Ironically, those
workers and labors often work over time with the low salary in a month (more or
less Rp. 10.000/day with 24-30 hours of working time) for the private goals of
the company that is to raise the ordered-product. For example, for the product
which costs Rp.112.000 they only get Rp. 500. As a result, Indonesia is claimed
growing as a country with of 70% poor people.
This phenomenon becomes the
reason why IMF, after the old regime let it come again to Indonesia and build
such cooperative relationships with it, takes a part in the economic growth of
Indonesia by the sake of global development and to bridge that 70% of poor
people into the promising future by giving the loan. This loan enables IMF to
manage the nature sources of Indonesia. As a result, it just makes Indonesia
goes down into the deep poverty and there are more and more poor people because
of IMF’s system. It seems like, this
documentary movie tries to go behind the hype of the new global economy and
reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater --
two thirds of the world's children live in poverty -- and the gulf is widening
like never before. The film looks at the new rulers of the world -- the great
multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them -- the IMF
and the World Bank. Under IMF rules, millions of people throughout the world
lose their jobs and livelihood. The reality behind much of modern shopping and
the famous brands is a sweatshop economy, which is being duplicated in country
after country.
In
The Spectre of Comparisons, Anderson
takes a closer look on the effect of the spread of capitalism and the role of
the state in promoting the official nationalism and he also tries to figure out
how the capitalism takes the steepening economic stratification of the global
economy which has resulted in the ethnicization of political life in the
wealthy. In the case described above globalization doesn’t seem to bring much
change to improve the economic growth of Indonesia and worse it turns out to
bring bad effects for people in which the international branded-companies including IMF with their masks of promising
future get Indonesian into deep down of poverty. As a result, the workers and
labors become the victims of globalization. This phenomenon seems going along
with what Anderson in Imagined
Communities ever argued for. He argues that nations emerge in the
eighteenth and nineteenth century as a result of various forces in which one of
its forces is claimed as the print of Capitalism.
In this stand point, it is assumed that the international markets bring the
benefits for a country; they offer the job opportunities and vacancies for
unemployed people and IMF offers the loans with the promising future but then
it only results in the raise of the poverty.
Arapa Efendi, Movie Review; The New Rules of the World. A Paper on Cultural Studies.
Arapa Efendi, Movie Review; The New Rules of the World. A Paper on Cultural Studies.
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