Carrying Other Political Party Cadres Evidence Of Participation System Failure

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JAKARTA The decision of the Forward Indonesia Coalition to carry out Gibran Rakabuming Raka as a candidate for vice president in the 2024 presidential election shows that the party system in Indonesia has failed to regenerate political leaders.

Political observer from Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Solo, Agus Riewanto, revealed that the phenomenon of Gibran's 'taking' shows that political parties are not confident so they decide to take cadres of other parties.

Even though the political parties have good cadres but they don't seem to be trusted. That means that our party system failed in order to produce a cadre of political leaders. Even though the Political Party Law explains that one of the functions of political parties is organization and regeneration. There was a failure," said Agus, Sunday, October 29.

He gave an example, from an ethical perspective, the support of Gibran by KIM showed that the coalition led by Prabowo Subianto was less ethical because it took Gibran, who is a PDIP cadre. Especially if the main consideration is only due to electoral factors.

Agus admitted that each person has its own ethical measure so that ethics is very subjective in nature. But in general, the public said that what Gibran was doing was unethical, that from different political parties it was nominated by other political parties.

"The ethics are appropriate and inappropriate, personal, in size, non-existent, and not legal. If Gibran feels that what he is doing is ethical, yes, go ahead but the public also has their own way of measuring political ethics," he explained.

He considered that in the presidential election or regional head election, the size was actually someone's character. According to Agus, if ethics is considered a measure of character, it is possible that non-ethical figures do not match the wishes of the public, and the opportunity can be chosen and not elected but the public has a mindset called silent majority.

"The public is silent but they have to be wary of. Maybe there is no room to talk about. There is room for social media but those who don't have more space, including apathy. Not being elected can be because voters come to the TPS but don't use their voting rights or golput or don't vote directly. My guess is, the goal in the future is higher," concluded Agus.