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Culture emerges and evolves according to human development and progress in trying to find the problems faced in life. Culture was born as a reflection of human thinking that began to develop and step by step forward with a certain and convincing. It is undeniable that today's advancement is due to a human culture that is beginning to advance and discovering the many technologies that human beings need at that time and now.In its development, culture can be a determinant and an appraiser of the characteristic of a society. The development of human thinking progress has changed the way of culture in society including custom and normative culture which is owned by a society one of them is culture in politics.Political culture in Indonesia is very strong with the culture of democracy built by the heritage of the ancestors has been to simulate the way of thinking of our society in addressing the existing politics. But the number of notions (ismeisms) entered and introduced by future generations has changed the way in which they perceive the current political culture. This resulted in many political cultures that are simple, practical and tend to be hegemonic.Currently, the political culture in Indonesia is experiencing various changes and the perspective of a diverse society. The political culture of money politics and patronage culture and is now a trendsetter of practical political culture that politicians do to gain power and influence in society.Keywords: cultural emergence, cultural perspective, political culture

Political party is a precondition for democracy. Political party should receive public trust to exist as the people's representative. Indonesian politics today distrusts the political party. Because of commiting criminal offense such as corruption, many politicians are prosecuted. To respond this situasion, the dignity of the political party needs to be restored. This article recommends that requirements of political party leader should be regulated in legislation. Political party leader should have moral and ethics capability higher than its regular member. Furthermore, this article also recommends that the Law Number 2 of 2008 should be amended to accommodate this research finding.

Before the General Election to choose the legislative members, that is held on April 5, 2005 and President General Election, that is held on June 5 and September 20, 2004, there was a political phenomenon, which then popularly said "a political contract. " The political contract was initiated by some elements of 'the civil society', which were the important components of the political power of pro-reform community. Looking at the cultural side, the existence of the political contract in the development of Indonesian politics implied that there was a change in cognitive, affective and evaluation orientation of some of Indonesian people in their attitudes and political habits to be more rational. The emergence of the more-rational political orientation was also pushed by the previous political experience of ''being betrayed by the political elite ', just like in 1999 General Election at the reform era. The chance also rose after the changes in the system of General Election that introduced the district and proportional system, and the direct president election that rose up the important of people's vote and aspiration. The changes had pushed the political elites to approach the people, fit themselves with the people's rhythm and dynamism, including the aspiration for political transparency and political accountability by willing to sign the political contract.