Like Football, The General Election Is Also A Matter Of Winning And Losing: Needing Development To Respond To Both

Germany's attacking midfielder Thomas Muller scored his team's first goal against Brazil which Julio Cesar guarded in the 2014 World Cup semifinals. (Twitter @El Depotivo LT)

When Brazil were humiliated by Germany with a landslide score of 1-7 in public itself at the 2014 World Cup, then President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff immediately opened his voice to calm his people. Despite being sad and disappointed, Rousseff still ensured that the result would not affect Madrid Brasil as the host of the 2014 World Cup.

Football consists of wins and defeats. It's always part of the game. Being able to get past a defeat I think it's a sign of our future and showing us as a team and a big country," said Rousseff.

"As a supporter, of course, I apologize. I apologize because I feel the same sadness as all Brazilians," Rousseff continued in his interview with CNN.

The Brazilian coach, said Luiz Felipe Scolari with great spirit acknowledged his inability to bring Brazil to the sixth world Cup champion at home. Instead of becoming champion, after losing 1-7 to Germany, Brazil also lost 0-3 to the Netherlands again in the race for third place.

Scolari didn't want to pile up the mistakes against his players. According to him, it was purely his fault. During his 25 years as a coach, he had never seen Brazil, which always had many great talent in football, trailed 5 goals in just 20 minutes from Germany.

"Dispose me..., just throw me away...," Scolari said in his tweet.

Not only the president and coach, the Brazilian players also apologized. So, the atmosphere can remain conducive. The 2014 World Cup in Samba Country continues to run normally, peacefully, and happily. Without a boycott, without any riots.

Upcoming the benefits of the play turned out to be more important than victory itself. Victory must be handled wisely, as well as defeat. The reality, according to Uhamka Communication Expert Said Romadlan, is not happening in this country.

Look at the frequent feud between football supporters. How many victims have been injured or died from the feud between Persib and Persija or the feud between other football clubs?

Likewise in the world of politics. Also look at how party supporters interpret victory and defeat in the 2017 DKI Pilkada and the 2019 Election? The polarization of the two camps supporting the presidential candidate at that time gave birth to a number of terms that degraded each other.

"This indicates that our level of maturity in accepting defeat is still very minimal. The brink of blind fanaticism and tends to be revenge culture that is always maintained. Real evidence can be seen, as Cebong and Kadrun seem to be preserved until now," Said told VOI, Monday (21/11).

In fact, said M Subhan, they are not uncomfortable showing reactive, emotional, or a short axis. As a result, the democratic space has minimal constructive debate. Criticism is not on substantial issues, but on personal gossip.

"If the politics is chaotic at the elite level, it looks instrumental, the hostility of partisans at the grassroots tends to be ideological," Subhan said in his writing "Stop cheating" in Kompas.

Cebong is a term for Jokowi's supporters, while Kadrun or desert lizard is a designation for those who do not support Jokowi. The designation of the desert leads to Middle Eastern areas such as Arabia. Thus, many also interpreted Kadrun as a term for descendants of Arabic and his followers who have always opposed Jokowi.

As in the topic of Esemka's car on Twitter recently. The conversation actually became a debate between Kadrun and Cebong. In fact, the @BangEdiii account just wants to prove that Esemka's car really exists. In fact, social media activists easily legitimize @BangEdiii and people who question the same thing as Kadrun.

Meanwhile, when the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) together with the President of the United Arab Emirates (PEA) Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) inaugurated the Sheikh Zayed Solo Grand Mosque on November 14, no one legitimized this topic as Kadrun.

"Of course it's a complicated problem, latent. We have a hard time getting out of a situation like this. Two to three more elections are also not necessarily," said Said.

Strutural and cultural aspects have experienced a shift from the foundation of the Pancasila state and the 1945 Constitution. From a structural aspect, the current political system that tends to place money as a condition for participating in political contestation makes it difficult to find figures with integrity.

It is difficult to find good political role models. The community needs a real example in political ethics. An example that can provide an understanding that the essence of politics is the welfare of the community, not the group or himself," Said said.

Likewise in the cultural aspect. Overhauling culture in society requires a long process. The revenge culture that is always depicted in the history of the kingdom in the archipelago is still carried to the modern era. Changing this is nothing but having to go through an educational system.

"Unfortunately, the current education system is also not clear which direction to go. Not the character, science or not, everyone is responsible. Finally, an independent campus appeared, independent learning sekarepmu dewe," added Said.

"So, it is time for us to understand the struggles and ideals of the founding fathers of the nation. Where do you want to take this nation? Building healthy politics is to restore public trust through the example of the leaders and representatives of the people," added Said.

Seperti yang dilakukan Rousseff dan Scolari dalam sepak bola, dalam kon context politik Presiden Jokowi juga sudah berulang kali mengingatkan agar para elite politik bisa memberikan contoh kepada masyarakat.

"Don't bring down each other. If possible, between parties praise each other, so listen to it is also good, inter-political praise each other, between parties who hear the people are also happy," said Jokowi during a speech at the anniversary of one of the parties on November 14.

"Winning or losing is normal. However, mutual respect for each other in contesting is the most important thing to maintain. The most important thing is that the inter- Candidates must respect, respect because whatever we are brothers," Jokowi said on a different occasion.

In this year's MPR annual speech, Jokowi also advised, "There should be no more politicization of religion. No more social polarization. Our democracy must be more mature."