Fajarasia.co – Deputy chairman of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD RI) Sultan B Najamudin reiterated that the only condition for this nation to develop a prosperous presidential democracy is to transform the political and administrative system through the revision of the political party law and constitutional amendments.
“We believe that all elements of the nation, especially the political elite, are aware of the same thing. The transformation of the political system requires greatness of soul and sensitivity to national political morals to be part of the solution to the nation’s current problems”, said the Sultan through his official statement on Monday (23/05) .
Furthermore, the former Deputy Governor of Bengkulu encouraged President Joko Widodo to also pay attention to the status quo of the political system and the decline of democracy which greatly interfered with the nation’s goals as a state. The president must be willing to beautify his own political historical canvas as a legacy of democracy that will be remembered by future generations.
I, the President, must be the Transformers that save democracy, which continues to run backwards, so that later we can pass on a better political and democratic system for leaders and future generations. Especially in bringing order to political parties which have become the political institutions that have most damaged our democratic system.
“So we always say that our current political system only produces pragmatic politicians and power grabbers, not statesmen who think about the nation’s future, like our Founder fathers in the past,” he said.
According to him, the phenomenon of Extreme Multi-Party is completely irrelevant to presidential democracy. Because political parties are public political institutions, the state must limit the number of parties and recommend a standardized political education curriculum for political parties according to the values of Pancasila.
All citizens are of course entitled and free to assemble and associate, but that does not mean that the public may arbitrarily form political organizations whose activities directly affect the fate of activities and the future of the state, such as political parties.
Therefore, the Government and the DPR must not ignore the attention and criticism of the public at this time. Let us no longer allow the weak character of political parties to be used by the merchant elite as mere tools to seize power.
“Because progress always requires change and transformation. And the decline of the political system that traps democracy into the hegemonic circle of elite and oligarchic interests must be ended for the sake of a better future for the nation”, he concluded.
The discourse on reforming the political system was also voiced by the newly elected senior intellectual and academic, the Chairman of the Indonesian Press Council, Azyumardi Azra, who spoke about Indonesian democracy. He assessed that Indonesia needed reform volume 2 peacefully.
“So now we need a second volume of reform but a peaceful one. Especially I think politics, yes, our politics needs extraordinary reforms. We have lost a lot of our bureaucracy,” said Azyumardi at the Bimasena Club, Saturday (21/5).****
