WSC Writing sample by Farrel Arganta: Indonesia should land a manned mission to Mars

WSC 2017 Regional Round (13-14 May 2017)

     In this country, Indonesia, where we literally have a low-economic track for years, do you really think that we should land a manned mission to Mars rather than building a better life in our own society?

Now to the definition. Basically, the meaning of “send”, according to www.merriam-webster.com, is to propel or throw in a particular direction while the meaning of “mission”, according to Google’s definition, is an assignment to or work in a place of a missionary enterprise.

     My first argument will be that I strongly believe that this motion is wrong and shall fall because don’t you know how bad is the economic-track of Indonesia is? It has been proven by a survey that Indonesia’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) – one of the primary indicators used to gauge the health of a country’s economy – is so low, which is $3,511 and that means that we are still below another developing country, like China, for example.

     The second thing is that Indonesia’s Human Development Index (HDI) is categorized as medium-low. It is literally an imbalance fact that Indonesia is the fourth-populous country on earth that is still haven’t reach the “peak” of their human potential, rather than USA, that literally is the world’s populous country, but at the same time, it has a higher HDI.

It has caused to all companies to move in Jakarta, ever since it is the capital city of Indonesia, which means that it can help them (companies) to stay alive, but for other local-factories, they can’t move in because there are no more space for them, forcing them to stay in their first headquarters, but they also can’t re-product theirsupplies and at the end, they’ll have to lack the payment of the pay-check, distribution, and etc. the last result of their hard work is bankrupt.

     This is not the only factor that makes Indonesia’s economy low. One of the famous ones is corruption. It always started with promotions, and always happened to leaders, like government.

     So, what is the relationship between Indonesia’s low-economy with sending an aircraft to Mars? The answer is that we can’t even afford the cost of the fuel! It cost billions of US dollar, and the reason is why Indonesia can’t afford that much money is because of the reasons I’ve just stated above. Thank you.