System One One Faction One Voice Makes Artists In DPR Difficult To Be Critical

Member of the House of Representatives from the artist circles including Deny Cagur is considered difficult to be critical. (Photo dpr.go.id)

JAKARTA A constitutional law expert, Bivitri Susanti said that the vote decision-making mechanism, which mostly uses faction decisions, will make it difficult for members of the DPR from celebrities to be critical.

"Our system does not know one person one vote, there is one faction of one vote. So it can be suspected that the name deliberative democracy or deliberation, but there is no deliberation. As long as our party system has not changed, this phenomenon will continue to occur," he said, Sunday, October 6, 2024.

He considered that these celebrities were actually being used by political parties (political parties). This is because political parties only prioritize how many seats are obtained in parliament. In addition, at the level of political parties within the DPR, what actually happens is political cartels, and political cartels negotiating with the oligarchy. "So it's not a matter of celebrities or not," he added.

Therefore, Bivitri is reluctant to blame the many artists who are now sitting in parliament. This is because this phenomenon is the fault of political parties, not the profession of a person and several artists who become members of the DPR, sometimes even have the capacity.

"First, what we need to highlight is what people's professions are, I think we focus on whether one, there is sufficient competence and track record of all politicians in the DPR or the government to occupy these positions," he explained.

Second, continued Bivitri, the number of celebrities or celebrities used by political parties illustrates how politics in Indonesia, that ideas and ethics are not considered important, because the most important thing is popularity.

The most important thing is how to get as many votes as possible, there is no matter whether they have competence or not, have a good track record or not. So what I want to blame is not the celebrity, but the political party. How do they behave so as to produce such officials," he said.