Jepara – Vice President Hamzah Haz has called on the people not to be carried away by the notion that the New Order era was a much better time because, he said, the regime's mistakes in development had plunged the country into the present prolonged crisis.

"Never long for a return to the seemingly better life under the New Order when it was easier to get a job or money. Our present misery is a consquence of the past regime's mistakes in development," he said at a function to mark the anniversary of the Nahdlatul Ulema (NU) here on Saturday.

He added the ongoing crisis in the country was the result of the mistakes made by the New Order era during its 32-year long rule.