There Is Still A Culture Of Identity Politics, Lemhanas: We Will Fix It

PPRA 63 held a seminar on Challenges in the 2024 Election: Reducing Identity Politics/ Photo: Doc. Lemhanas RI

JAKARTA – The Governor of the Indonesian National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas RI) Andi Widjajanto considers Indonesia still has a culture of identity politics. According to him, this was done as part of a short-term political tactic.

"There is still a political culture that we have to overhaul, including using identity politics as part of a short-term political tactic that will actually reduce the maturity of our democracy." said Andi Widjajanto when opening the seminar on Challenges in the 2024 General Election: Reducing Identity Politics, which was held by the Participants of the Regular Education Program Force (PPRA) 63 Lemhannas RI, at the Gadjah Mada Auditorium, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, August 9.

Andi Widjajanto conveyed that Lemhanas would propose several regulations related to efforts to eliminate campaigns that only rely on identity politics, and improve and improve the quality of campaigns.

"We are trying to combine opportunities and challenges, and will propose regulations related to how to eliminate campaigns that rely on identity politics. Then, improve and improve the quality of political campaigns, such as the president's directive to adopt technology so that the process of digitizing democracy will simplify the election process in the future. improve the quality of the campaign so that the campaign is directed and increases the space for public participation." Andi explained.

In this discussion, PPRA 63 invited elements of the KPU, BAWASLU, members of the DPR and civil society.

"We hope that it will contribute ideas to formulate regulations related to reducing identity politics." he concluded.