One of the Answers to Why Cambodia Has Sluggish improvement

"Paris Agreements On A broad Political village of The Cambodian Conflict" signed on 23 October 1991, marked a indispensable freewill agreement in the middle of Cambodia and the witness-states of the world, that Cambodia would unconditionally stand for liberal democracy. Era of confident change, big or small, I believe, is descriptive in Cambodia; Cambodia's government is turning the system of democracy into practicality. But is it paralleled in the middle of the time-spending, resources (especially finance), international involvements, and the achievements received by the government? The majority, along with me, would say "no", and that means the achievements would be greater. And what are the obstacles of democratization? Many obstacles are acutely seen, but media-extremism, as I name, will be the heated consulation below.

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One of the most acute obstacles to authentic democracy for Cambodian government is "media-extremism". What does it mean by the word media-extremism? Media-extremism here, I mean that most of the media networks of Cambodia are thoroughly left-wing or thoroughly right-wing. If the newspaper is pro-government, that newspaper always says good things about the government, and if the newspaper is pro-opposition party, the opposition party is always right and the government is always wrong. I found some confident and negative things in both the government and the opposition party, and the media should say those things out objectively.

I don't want this fourth power to be controlled by any party, but I want this power to free and factual. Of course, media is heterogeneous, anti-bureaucratic, creative, intellectual, all that are an efficient potential to solving a small up-to-date conflict. But citizen can be wrongly or fictionally steered, if the media has no liberal mind and tries to take off the nature and reality from the audience. The newspaper, is expertly operated, must be objective and fact-based; state wrong if it is wrong, and right if it is right.

Another qoute is that the opposition party has no way at all to television, which today is the most grand fourth power in Cambodia. Democracy is separate from communism in equal conditions, provided to the contenders. I've never seen the opposition party has their says in the state television networks at all, this means that all the Cambodian television network is belonged to the government, not representing the people's interests. Information is knowledge, but that knowledge can craze the people's minds, if it is not fact-based, but unconditionally maintain the government.

Non-objective Information would bring hardships to domestic and international viewers and analysts. Transparent information, I think, would attract more investors, because national and international investor would determine either to spend the money or not according to the Information they get. Imbalanced Information would make those prospective investors doubtful. Political and economic analysts are on the same track; they can accurately and well analyze the politics and economic growth of one country, in accordance to the Information they get. Because this problem, most of the political and prudent viewers of Cambodia turn to trust the sources of international institutions, especially the Un, more than the domestic sources.

Freedom of publication is one of the most efficient measures of why other regional or European worlds are much more industrialized than Cambodia. "No one can see the colour of his/her eyes, until he/she is helped by the mirror". citizen is the mirror of the government, their expressions would fill the loopholes of the government. A liberal-mind government would be a role model to make state's citizen liberal-mind as well. Constructive critics, endorsements, inventive ideas...etc are some of musts to enhance the government. So far, I have seen that Cambodian citizen are not keen or scared with their heart-based expressions or some even think that their expressions are nonsense to the government. Book-publications, as I have seen, is well inadequate, because of inferior education, lack of libraries and printing houses, the majority of Cambodian citizen are not bookworms, and finally citizen have lack of chances to publishing their written books. Publishing slow down of Cambodia would negatively affect the ability of education, which is the indispensable mechanism to development. Moreover, I have never seen the opposition party issue whatever at all, except in a few newspapers.

Conclusion

Paris Peace Agreement, and openness to regional and global integration, I believe, Cambodian development will never shrink. However, Cambodia would face a lot of challenges, before it can prosper. One of the tools to put in order itself for regional contentions is "to reform and empower press system", by separating it from any political party, empowering the pro press labourers. And judiciary institution has to be a well separated from legislative and menagerial power, so it can ensure the profession-based possession of the press workers. "Cambodia has a long way forward, but before it takes a first step, Cambodia has to have willpower; otherwise time and resources will be extravagantly wasted.

One of the Answers to Why Cambodia Has Sluggish improvement

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