Observer: Political Democrats Are Unreasonable, They Will Slowly Emerge Internal Resistance

JAKARTA - Political observer from the Indonesian Public Institute (IPI) Karyono Wibowo assesses that the Democratic Party will experience political turbulence internally because so far the party bearing the Mercy symbol tends to be controlled by a Cikeas family.

"Indeed, the dynasty is unreasonable. Almost all parties also have kinship politics, but the most striking is the Democrat party so that gradually resistance will emerge within the Democratic party", Karyono told VOI, Thursday, February 25.

Karyono said that the Extraordinary Democratic Party Congress (KLB PD) was not easy to hold because the chair of the upper house was chaired by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), who is said to be the biological father of the current chairman, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY).

Also, the secretary of the upper house is Andi Malarangeng who is also an SBY-AHY loyalist. "Is it complicated or not? Therefore, in my opinion, an official outbreak is not as easy as imagined", he said.

Unless If there is a dualism in the management of the Democratic Party as experienced by the Golkar Party in the past. So that, it will be recognized that the management of a political party that has received a decree (SK) from the Minister of Law and Human Rights.

"Except for the founders of the Democrats, the board members in the DPD and the DPP made rival boards like Golkar before. There were ARB and Agung Laksono camps, there was the Bali National Conference and the Ancol National Conference", said Karyono.

According to Karyono, if more and more people disagree with today's Democratic leadership, the shock of party solidity will be even more pronounced. If internal Democrats who are disappointed or dissatisfied with AHY's leadership then crystallize, he said, it could also threaten AHY's position and also threaten the position of the Cikeas dynasty family.

"If for example the Anas Urbaningrum camp joins Marzuki Alie then Max Sopacua and there are several founders of the Democratic party, all the forces that are not satisfied with the AHY leadership are united, it will create political turbulence within the Democratic party which will further aggravate the Democrats. continues", explained Karyono.

If the political turbulence within the Democrats strengthens, continued Karyono, there may be a compromise so that the party can survive. Moreover, party integrity is needed for the benefit of the 2024 general election.