ABSTRACT The Concept of Democracy is one of the products of Western thought that has gone through a long history since ancient Greece that was neglected in the development of mainstream discourse, but returned to popularity in the 18th century and became a constant conversation when the wave of democratization hit countries in the world since in the 1970s. What is interesting about the concept of democracy is the inspiration of the thoughts that it gave birth to political transformation in many countries that inspired to inspire many scholars and activists in many developing countries who were also struggling with autocratic regimes to deepen it. Democratic reforms have always been special news in various mass media, both in newspapers, television, and not only discussed in general contexts, such as in mass media, but also in more specialized public spaces. For example, it was seen when the first direct presidential election in Indonesia after the New Order was broadcast widely and attracted the attention of the world's citizens. Democracy is also discussed in restaurants, football stadiums, malls, terminals and many other places including Nobar (Watching goods) Presidential / Cawapres debate ahead of the 2019 Presidential Election. This reality shows that democracy has been accepted as an important word in the present century. But the problems that need to get mutual attention, how the democratization process takes place, the key actors, the interaction between actors what will be achieved, the driving factors and obstacles to the democratization process. Keywords: Democracy, Democratization Process, Reformation, Interactionbetween actors
ABSTRACTThe word democracy is increasingly popular in various developing countries, both at the level of discourse and the level of the social and political movements. As a political system, democracy has topped many countries because it is considered capable of regulating and resolving social and political relations, both involving interests between individuals in society, relations between communities, society and countries and between countries in the world. The collapse of communism in 1989 became an important momentum for democracy as a political system to spread its influence throughout the world. As a concept, democracy has a broad meaning with its own complexity. This paper tries to explain the variance of democracy, especially the debate between liberal democracies and social democracy. Besides that, he also tried to explain the practice of democracy in Indonesia after the 1998 reform era and showed the problems faced by this country in creating a democratic society. Finally this paper wants to explain that democratization in Indonesia is still in process and there are still many things that need to be addressed. Keywords: democratization, liberals, social, acceleration, Indonesia
The concept of democracy in Indonesia actually has already exists at the grassroots level, which is in the village, and thus, to create democracy should be from the bottom. At this level, we would know how to create, strengthening, and consolidating democracy in regional even in national level. Hence, the core institution for democratization is the Village at the grassroots level. This case study research conducted in Sunyalangu Village, Central Java, Indonesia that is include to a poor village in Banyumas region and thus, it become a marginal village. I examine their political cultures on national general elections from 1971 to 2004 and the relationships between village's executive and legislative roles on the lowest level of democratization. This focus shows how empirical democracy created. The result of this research shows that their political cultures is inconsistence in elects their political parties and representatives because of personal needs and their moral economy to the political party. Moreover, the village government (local executive) is still dominates the relationship with local parliament (BPD) because of the institutional and geographical constraints at the grassroots level. The implication of this situation is to re-think the concept of democracy in grassroots level by creating the democracy culture.
p. 155-173 ; Regional autonomy must be understood as a process of democratization, open the space of democratic governance, responsive to the public interest, and maintain decision-making mechanisms that adhere to the principle of public accountability. But behind the above advantages, there are some disadvantages, such as excessive aspiration can lead to disintegration, which causes conflict of interests is growing, particularly conflict of using the natural resource. Water use disputes of the Udanuwuh village and the Dlingo village is an example of conflict of using water resources not only between people in two villages, but involves two regencies, namely Boyolali Regency and Semarang Regency. This study shows that the solution of the conflict depends on the role of mediator, the pattern of negotiation, legal certainty, and coordinative functions of governments.
Reformation became an important moment of democratization in Indonesia. The two important political changes that occur in reformation era are the freedom to establish political parties and the electoral system. Such changes have an impact on the emergence of a coalition phenomenon in Indonesia, because general elections with multiparty systems are unable to produce a majority vote in parliament. This paper aims to map and analyze the dinamic of the political party coalition in Indonesia' presidential election in the reform era within coalition theories by Riker, Katz&Mair and Swaan. Using a qualitative approach and secondary data from media and literature, the main factor that influence the formation of coalitions in the presidential elections in the reform era is political pragmatism. It Political pragmatism makes political partiesparty politics as a cartel party that becomes the agent of the state and employ the resources of the state to ensure their party' survival. Pragmatism ultimately makes the ideology is not a binding factor in building a coalition, but simply to maximize power.
Although trauma and public skepticism toward the military is still quite strong; though the sins of the military during the New Order freely beragai stripped naked in public space during the reform. In fact, military figures rose even more flying in many national level either party until the local level, both old and new parties. To face the new system of political contestation and the military is benefiting from a weakening factor of the consolidation of civilian political forces. Political parties and civic leaders increasingly anti Orba number berjibun be a dilemma. Elections are approaching need fresh energy to be the winner while they are still haunted by the various limitations of the cadre of crisis, financial crisis and the crisis of political networks. To rise, the former general has a genetic modalities required political parties and civic leaders that organizational discipline, a network of territorial and political violence. Political modalities of military culture is that interest civilian politicians because it can be replicated in consolidating the power of the party, although very risky memangun consolidation of democracy in Indonesia in the future. The choices here are to be assessed for reading the direction of the democratization of Indonesia.
On the challenges of development for democratization and transparency in the frame- work of regional autonomy, local governments now compete to build a race-e-government infrastructure. In factual, the main obstacles of the implementation of e-government is on the governance or management structure of the management and quantity and quality of human resources at government agencies that are very limited. The object of the selected study site is The City of Yogyakarta and The Sleman regency government. The formulation of the problem is taken "How E-Government Communication and Adminitrations Management Back Office Models as a Public Service Studies on the regional government of Yogyakarta and Sleman District Government Sites? " Research method used was descriptive research to guide the inductive eksploratory to the results of research that the technical provisions of the respective websites of local governments to become the object of research in managing the front office has to follow some standard that is required in the development of the web as a medium for communication and information. Information uptodating, especially news on the navigation was done routinely. But still there is a delay of uptodating websites is a sign that there is imbalance between the management of websites each local government. Number of links the information of each local government websites have been sufficient, meaning that many categories of information provided. The fundamental problem lies in the fact that the government does not provide e-mail links for the user community, if there is acceptance of the feedback is to the manager or administrator websites and not on the officials concerned.
Since the fall of the New Order regime, the courage to sue the state began to reverberate dipentas unitary national politics. The emergence of the idea of a federal state (united state) is the antithesis of the implementation of regional autonomy in Indonesia based on Law No.5 of 1974 on the Principles of Local Government is in the very setralisti. Through these legal instruments are the restraints and the dominance of local independence done so strict and systematic. Though conceptually the real regional autonomy is the freedom of movement (of expression) should be given to the autonomous regions to conduct their own initiatives to manage the interests of society in the region. Therefore there is a presumption that the imposition of the concept of regional autonomy through the form of a unitary state did not take the welfare of people in the region because the laws on local government implementation of the new order which is conceptually very repressive, also followed well as the behavior of authoritarian governments, harassing human rights, setralisme power sucking resources into the central region. To overcome this, then the solution is the democratization and decentralization of power through regional autonomy the broadest, not by changing the form of the state of federalism, but by changing the way state officials are concerned interestexistence of regions including the utilization of natural resources equity and pluralism (diversity) regions. This is where the importance of regional autonomy as one of the vanguard of the unitary Republic of Indonesia guard.Keywords: Unitary - Federal - Regional Autonomy
Indonesia has been present and is still able to maintain itself as a democracy icon that should be followed by other countries. As one of the largest democracies in the world, Indonesia in more than ten years is continue growing and transforming with its diversity in society, the dynamics and diversity issues. Indonesia was still able to maintain its identity as a democracy. Through these facts, this paper tried to describe the political situation in Indonesia in the 2014 Presidential Election, as well as reflect further on the response and the effect of foreign parties to the democratic mechanism. What happens in the electoral process in recent months and how Indonesia continues to become an example of the success stories of various identity democracies as diverse as a multicultural country, developing countries, as well as the country with the largest Muslim adherents in the world. This paper sees the problem through the concept of elections and democracy based on the analysis of identity. Where the author tried to look outside the box of the electoral process in the domestic political analysis that has been done before. Probe Indonesia based on its identity in the international sphere as a democratic state becomes interesting when its identity was assessed by comparing it with other identities such as identity and role as a developing country and collective identity as the Southeast Asian country. The papers argue that the election process in Indonesia is not only shaped by domestic factors. Indonesia democratization maturity today can't be separated from the support of international and Indonesian efforts in playing a role and maintain its identity as a democratic country in the international sphere. Keywords: democracy, election, identity
On the challenges of development for democratization and transparency in the frame- work of regional autonomy, local governments now compete to build a race-e-government in- frastructure. In factual, the main obstacles of the implementation of e-government is on the governance or management structure of the management and Quantity and quality of human resources at government agencies that are very limited. The object of the selected study site is the city of Yogyakarta, Sleman regency government sites and the Government of Bantul district. The formulation of the problem is taken "How Communication Model Management Front Of- fice E-Government as a Public Service Media Site on the regional government of Yogyakarta, Sleman District Government Sites Site and the Government of Bantul Regency? " Research method used is descriptive research to guide the inductive eksploratori to the results of research that the technical provisions of the respective websites of local governments to become the object of research in managing the front office has to follow some standard that is required in the development of the web as a medium for communication and information. Up toditas informa- tion, especially news on the navigation was done routinely. But still there is a delay of up toditas websites is a sign that there is imbalance between the management of websites each local gov- ernment. Number of links the information of each local government websites have been suffi- cient, meaning that many categories of information provided. The fundamental problem lies in the fact that the government does not provide e-mail links for the user community, if there is acceptance of the feedback is to the manager or administratur websites and not on the officials concerned.
Dialog adalah bagian penting dari penguatan demokratisasi. Namun, dialog belum sepenuhnya dipraktikkan dan diprioritaskan di sekolah. Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana SMA Kolese Gonzaga membangun sistem pembelajaran yang menyediakan ruang besar untuk berdialog. Dalam setiap kegiatan, sekolah mencoba mengembangkan keterampilan komunikasi, belajar untuk saling memahami, dan juga berkolaborasi dengan berbagai komunitas. Sekolah menjadi institusi penting untuk mempromosikan toleransi dan dialog dari berbagai tradisi atau latar belakang budaya. Memperkuat dialog adalah bagian penting dari penekanan pendekatan pendidikan humanis. Penelitian ini berfokus pada dua hal: (i) praktik menjadikan sekolah sebagai ruang dialog, dan (ii) bagaimana sekolah dapat mempromosikan dialog untuk perdamaian. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus. Informan dipilih menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara mendalam, observasi, dan studi literatur. Wawancara dilakukan kepada kepala sekolah, guru, siswa, dan orang tua. Kegiatan dialog diperkuat dalam berbagai kegiatan di sekolah. SMA Kolese Gonzaga membangun ruang dialog di berbagai bidang di sekolah seperti di ruang kelas, kegiatan sehari-hari, dan kegiatan di luar sekolah. ; Dialogue is an important part of strengthening democratization. However, dialogue has not been fully practiced and prioritized in schools. Schools become important institutions to promote tolerance and dialogue from various traditions or cultural backgrounds. Strengthening dialogue is an important part of the humanist education approach. This research discussed how Kolese Gonzaga High School established a learning system that provides a large space for dialogue. In each activity, the school tries to develop communication skills, learn to understand each other, and also collaborate with various communities. This research focused on two things: (i) the practice of establishing school as a space for dialogue, and (ii) how school can promote dialogue for peace. This research was qualitative research with a case study approach. Informants were selected using a purposive sampling technique. Meanwhile, the data collection techniques used are in-depth interviews, observation, and literature study. Interviews were conducted with school principals, teachers, students, and parents. Dialogue activities are strengthened in various activities at school. Kolese Gonzaga High School establishes dialogue spaces in various fields in the school such as in classrooms, daily activities, and activities outside of school.
ABSTRAKSIDemokrasi didefinisikan sebagai kekuatan rakyat, oleh rakyat, dan untuk rakyat. Indonesia memeluk demokrasi yang dijiwai dan terintegrasi dengan nilai-nilai luhur sehingga tidak dapat dialihkan. Implementasi demokrasi terlihat pada pesta demokrasi yang diadakan setiap lima tahun. Pemilihan kepala daerah menunjukkan implementasi demokrasi masyarakat di daerah dan indikator pelaksanaan kehidupan demokrasi. Pada kenyataannya itu ditentukan oleh kesadaran elit politik untuk membangun aliansi politik. Pada tahun 2018, Indonesia memasuki tahun politik yang ditandai dengan pemilihan kepala daerah (Pilkada) secara serentak di berbagai provinsi dan kabupaten / kota. Pilkada memiliki posisi strategis dalam menciptakan keefektifan pemerintah lokal karena kepala yang dinominasikan dan terpilih memegang peran kepemimpinan daerah. Ini adalah pilkada simultan yang tidak hanya memiliki sejumlah besar wilayah, tetapi juga mencakup daerah-daerah yang dikategorikan memiliki bobot politik dalam perhitungan politik nasional. Kita harus berjuang bersama untuk memulihkan cita-cita demokrasi dari pemilihan, untuk mengatur bahwa persaingan politik dapat dilaksanakan dengan cara yang beradab dan menghasilkan pemimpin yang diterima oleh semua pihak. Konflik harus diarahkan sebagai energi untuk membuat tantangan demokratis dan berharap lebih banyak dan lebih tepat dalam proses demokratisasi pemilu di Indonesia.Kata kunci: Demokrasi, Pilkada Serempak 2018, Harapan, dan Tantangan ABSTRACTDemocracy is defined as the power of the people, by the people, and for the people. Indonesia embraces a democracy that is imbued and integrated with noble values so that it can not be diverted away. Implementation of democracy is seen at the democracy party which is held every five years. The election of regional head shows the implementation of community democracy in the area and an indicator of the implementation of democratic life. In reality it is determined by the consciousness of political elites to build political alliances. In 2018, Indonesia entered the political year marked by the election of regional heads (Pilkada) simultaneously in various provinces and districts / cities. Pilkada has a strategic position in creating the effectiveness of local government because the nominated and elected heads hold the role of regional leadership. This is a simultaneous pilkada that not only has a large number of areas, but also includes regions that are categorized as having political weight in national political calculations. We must strive together to restore the democratic ideals of the elections, to organize that political competition can be implemented in a civilized manner and produce leaders who are accepted by all parties. Conflict must be directed as energy to make democratic challenges and hopes more and more correct in the process of democratization of elections in Indonesia.Keywords: Democracy, Pilkada Unison 2018, Hope, and Challenge
The study of the kyai is always interesting to discuss, especially when it comes to politics. Because the study of clerics is a multidimensional statement. This means that the study of kyai can not only be seen from one aspect (kyai as a religious figure) but can be seen from other aspects (his views on politics). Therefore, the involvement of the kyai in the political process of the regional head election is inevitable, because the kyai is one of the local elites who can contribute to the process of political learning in democracy. With its charisma is able to provide knowledge to the community in making choices. However, the involvement of the kyai in politics can also have a negative impact on the learning of democratization, because it is not uncommon for the kyai who has close relations with his students to use these weapons to gain significant support that can divert the political choices of their students to win one of the candidates supported by the kyai the. Because the santri relationship with the kyai is not only limited to the world of pesantren, but also has an influence in determining political choices. Ideally in the realm of Democracy, aspirations should not be represented by elites in direct elections, the people are fully entitled to weigh, evaluate, and propose candidates for regional heads and choose who is suitable and considered worthy of being their leader through the processes and mechanisms that apply. Likewise with the regional head Candidates, their political rights should not be castrated by the existing elite by marginalizing the nominating exchange because they are not included in the nominated deliberations. However, this is not the case in Pamekasan and on the contrary, regional head candidates are determined by the existing elite (kyai) and submitted to political parties. So that regional head candidates do not come out of the conversion process within political parties but are born from external parties. At this point, there seems to be a process of duping because it is assumed that the people cannot choose an appropriate figure as their leader. This mindset is very hurting the course of political development in the country. Today's people are getting smarter, being able to distinguish which leaders are good or not. Therefore in determining the candidates, the people's aspirations should not be taken over by the elite. If this problem continues then it is at this point that the Democratic Fetus has been killed at the hands of the elite. ; Kajian tentang kyai selalu menarik untuk dibahas, apalagi jika berkaitan dengan politik. Karena kajian tentang kyai merupakan kaljian yang bersifat multidimensional. Artinya studi tentang kyai tidak hanya bisa dilihat dari satu aspek saja (kyai sebagai tokoh agama) akan tetapi bisa dilihat dari aspek yang lain (pandangannya dalam berpolitik). Oleh karena itu keterlibatan kyai dalam proses politik pemilihan kepala daerah tidak bisa dihindarkan, karena kyai merupakan salah satu elit local yang dapat memberikan kontribusi terhadap proses pembelajaran politik dalam berdemokrasi. Dengan kharismanya mampu memberikan pengetahuan kepada masyarakat dalam menentukan pilihan. Namun, keterlibatan kyai dalam politik juga bisa memberikan dampak negative dalam pembelajaran demokratisasi, karena tidak jarang kyai yang mempunyai hubungan erat dengan para santrinya menggunakan senjata tersebut untuk memperoleh dukungan yang signifikan yang bisa mengalihkan pilihan politik para santrinya untuk memenangkan salah satu kandidat yang didukung oleh kyai tersebut. Karena hubungan santri dengan kyai tidak hanya sebatas pada dunia pesantren, melainkan juga mempunyai pengaruh dalam menentukan pilihan politik. Idealnya di dalam alam Demokrasi, aspirasi tidak boleh diwakili oleh elit didalam pemilihan langsung, rakyat sepenuhnya berhak menimbang, menilai, serta mengajukan calon kepala daerah dan memilihnya siapa yang pantas dan dianggap layak sebagai pemimpinanya melalui proses dan mekanisme yang berlaku. Begitu juga dengan Calon kepala daerah, hak politiknya tidak boleh dikebiri oleh elit yang ada dengan cara meminggirkan dari bursa pencalonan karena tidak masuk dalam nominasi yang dimusyawarahkan. Namun tidak begitu dengan yang terjadi di Pamekasan dan justru sebaliknya, calon kepala daerah di tentukan oleh elit-elit (kyai) yang ada dan diajukannya kepada partai politik. Sehingga kandidat kepala daerah tidak keluar dari proses konversi didalam partai politik melainkan lahir dari kalangan ekternal elit partai. Didalam titik ini, terkesan ada proses pembodohan karena diasumsikan rakyat tidak bisa memilih figur yang layak sebagai pemimpinnya. Pola pikir demikian sangat melukai jalannya pembangunan politik di tanah air. Rakyat saat ini sudah semakin cerdas, bisa membedakan mana pemimpin yang bagus ataupun tidak. Oleh karenanya dalam penentuan calon, tidak selayaknya aspirasi rakyat diambil alih oleh elit. Jika masalah ini terus berlangsung maka didalam titik inilah Janin Demokrasi sudah terbunuh di tangan para elit.
