Father Magnis Highlights 3 Things The Prabowo-Gibran Government Must Fight For

Professor of Driyarkara High School Philosophy, Franz Magnis Suseno. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The 2024 election is considered by STF Driyarkara Professor Frans Magniz Suseno to be the worst general election in Indonesian history. However, the public must accept the election results as a form of democratic attitude.

Father Magniz revealed that after the election there were still three things that the people in the era of Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka had to fight for.

The first thing that must be fought for is democratic freedom, freedom to express opinions, gather and organize is not limited. This is important because in recent years there have been restrictions on freedom of expression, there are people who criticize and then take them to the police on charges of insulting, "said Frans Magniz-Suseno for discussion After 26 Years of Reform and the Nir-Jurdil Presidential Election organized by the Association to Guard Elections and Filsafat Driyarkara College in Jakarta, Monday, May 20.

Father Magniz added, Karl Marx said that a small person who could not speak up and fight for his interests would be starving.

The second thing that must be fought for is to be critical of oligarchy and corruption. According to Father Magniz, Indonesia had become a success story in eradicating corruption through the Corruption Eradication Commission. However, in the last government, the KPK's authority was castrated.

The third thing that is no less important to fight for is social justice. Don't let the Indonesian people look for ideology other than Pancasila because they are still poor. Currently, 50% of the Indonesian people are not prosperous and 9% of them are still poor. If the Indonesian people have an assumption that Indonesia only belongs to those who are rich, it is not impossible that they will look for a new ideology," said Father Magniz.

Father Magniz hopes that the President and Vice President-elect Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka can maintain the future of Indonesian democracy as well as possible.

The General Chairperson of the Association to Guard the Election of Natalia Soebagjo revealed that the 2024 General Election is still contaminated by violation practices and election fraud. The occurrence of normalization of violations and fraud, or the Indonesian elections (new normal) where election malpractice is considered a common thing and there is omission in law enforcement.

This makes the legitimacy of election winners and the government that is formed will float. The 2024 election also gave birth to artificial democracy where the practice of procedural democracy in the form of holding elections is regulated through winning scenarios that manipulate procedural mechanisms and electoral regulations," said Natalia.

Therefore, said Natalia, the Election Guard Association has provided six recommendations so that future elections can run better. First, encouraging the DPR to carry out its supervisory duties to ensure that elections are carried out based on the principles of president, public, free, secret, honest and fair.

Second, remind and maintain that the executive branch/election organizers respect the principle of neutrality. Third, educating and increasing public awareness regarding the process of reporting violations.

Fourth, increase the active participation of the public in supervising and maintaining the running of elections that are clean and with integrity. Keep the election has a platform to make reports easier. Fifth, support the critical attitude of civil society and political parties to become opposed / different voices.

Sixth, doing political education, critical thinking and ethics for young people. Because everything that happened in the last election led to ethics over the rules that had been agreed but ignored.

Program Manager of the Center for Law and Policy Studies Indonesia Violla Reininda said Indonesia was experiencing a decline in democracy and legal relations in the last 1-2 periods. Therefore, it is time for civil society to fight and seize power domination.

The civil society as a balancing force must anticipate the consolidation of oligarchs in the 2024 regional elections. What is no less important is to prepare civil society as a strong and critical alternative force," concluded Violla.