The World Red Cross "Everywhere for Everyone"

PMI's people, while waiting for the passing of the Kepalangmerahan Bill, let's always be prepared for disasters to save lives and the future of the nation. Caring for the spirit of Jean Henry Dunant: "In suffering, we are all brothers".

If there had never been a terrible battle at Solferino on June 24, 1859 and the book "Un Souvenir de Solferino" or "A Memory of Solferino or" Memories of Solferino ", surely the historical record of modern humanitarian aid and the largest humanitarian organization in the world" the Red Cross and the Moon Red Crescent "might say differently.

Yes in Solferino, a village (then) in northern Italy, a combination of French and Sardinian troops fought against Austrian troops. In the evening, nearly 40,000 soldiers lay dead or wounded without treatment. The military health services of both parties were overwhelmed and they did not have special protection.

Jean Henry Dunant, a Swiss businessman and citizen, arrived in Solferino on the night of June 24, 1859 when the fierce battle had taken place. Seeing tens of thousands of soldiers dead and wounded, while military medical personnel overwhelmed caring for, treating those injured, as well as incomplete and insufficient medicines, Henry Dunant stopped his desire to meet emperor Napoleon III on business affairs. He began to help the victims, he organized first aid.

According to the book "Un Souvenir de Solferino" written by Dunant, there were three Marshals, nine Generals, 1,566 Officers of all levels and approximately 40,000 Bintara and Soldiers. There were 38,000 people who died within 15 hours, most of them died because they did not get help or treatment on time or because of lack of care.

Looking at the situation and conditions at that time, Dunant was horrified and thrilled at the number of victims, so he invited local residents, especially women, to treat all injured victims, record important things from the victims, or bury the dead. He succeeded in convincing residents to help all victims without discrimination. The words of wisdom he said at the time were, "In suffering, we are all brothers" --Siamo tutti fratelli !, Dunant managed to arouse their humanity.

Although the Solferino war has ended, memories of helping the victims of the battles continue to remain in Dunant's humanist memory. He did not just forget the human tragedy. His mind was filled with a vision for the good of humanity in the future, so he wrote the book "Un Souvenir de Solferino" which was published in 1862.

His book stalled the world at the time, but there was something more important there. The brilliant idea that was born for humanitarian mission is first, the need to form voluntary organizations that are set up in peacetime to help wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Secondly, the need for an international agreement to give recognition and protection to the wounded soldiers on the battlefield.

The experts and important figures at that time were interested in the idea, they agreed with it. So in 1963, the International Conference was held in the city of Geneva, Switzerland, which gave birth to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the first humanitarian organization in the world that is neutral, impartial and independent, and the ratification of the Convention named Geneva Convention, the most historic convention that became a milestone enforcement of International Humanitarian Law or International Humanitarian Law.

For me, the book "Un souvenir de Solferino" is not just a bitter memory book about an event that has saddled our conscience and humanity. But he became a paving stone for the organization of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and about the lives of the people who volunteer as volunteers. He is the poultice of the human struggle of Henry Dunant, passed down from generation to generation to the present.

He became a stone in the history of human civilization and a stone in the presence of the Indonesian Red Cross Association (PMI) on this earth. Because for a book that is so astonishing the world, its brilliant ideas have transcended the barriers of thought, ideology, transcendental, genealogical, and so on. That is the ultimate masterpiece of a real human child! Visionary, the Reformer!

Thank you Jean Henry Dunant. Because without you, the "International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement" might never have existed, even so about the Indonesian Red Cross which carved unparalleled humanitarian services for the great and independent nation and nation on August 17, 1945 that we are proud of. . Your body may be smelted with earth, but your body will be preserved forever, etched firmly in our hearts, generations of humanity.

Jean Henry Dunant's birthday, May 8, has been celebrated as Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. This year has stepped onto 188. Sir Jean Henry Dunant who was the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate ever said that: "A country will not lack its dream figure if its young generation often ventures in the forests, mountains and oceans".

He has encouraged the Red Cross and the World Red Crescent to devote themselves to anyone and anywhere, "Everywhere for Everyone". Wherever we are, and whatever our work, may we always be able to provide benefits to fellow human beings who are in need on the basis of humanity, regardless of background, ethnicity, religion, class, or political ideology.

And for the people of PMI, in the course of their assistance, they always work based on seven basic principles, namely Humanity, Equality, Neutrality, Independence, Volunteerism, Unity, and Universality. While waiting for the adoption of the Legislative Draft Law by the House of Representatives, continue to work in the community, in the environment around us, in the midst of our families, for our beloved nation and country, to build disaster preparedness and care and assistance for victims of tragedies humanity.

Continue to campaign and campaign for "Let's Standby Disaster, to Save the Soul and the Future" because our country is truly prone to disaster.

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