Government Value Expert Needs Opposition To Ensure Public Will Is Carried Out

President and vice president elected, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming. (Instagram @prabowo)

JAKARTA - Constitutional law expert from Andalas University Feri Amsari emphasized that the existence of opposition is needed in a government.

According to him, the opposition can ensure that the public's will can be carried out.

"The government is disadvantaged if there is no opposition," Feri said in a discussion entitled, "Opository in Parliament: The Last Fort Against Tirania or the Enemy of National Progress?" held by the UPN Veterans Student Senate, Jakarta, in Jakarta, Thursday, October 17, was confiscated by Antara.

According to Feri, the government needs the opposition as an opponent to form policies that accommodate the will of the public.

In addition, Feri said the opposition also played an important role in accommodating the aspirations of the community if the government deviated from the public interest.

"If the government is not right, where are we complaining?" said Feri.

Furthermore, Feri said that the opposition was also an alternative choice for the community. The existence of the opposition will be an alternative in the next five years of general elections.

Thus, said Feri, if the ongoing government does not reap public satisfaction, then in the upcoming elections, the community will have alternatives to choose the opposition.

"It's electoral engineering and politics. If there is no engineering, it is impossible for our government to develop properly," he said.

Therefore, Feri invites the community to help oversee the development of the political system and ensure the existence of the opposition.

The Indonesia Maju Coalition (KIM) won the 2024 presidential election by carrying Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka as presidential and vice presidential candidates. KIM consists of 10 political parties, and four of them are parliamentary political parties, namely the Gerindra Party, Golkar Party, PAN, and the Democratic Party.

After the 2024 election, KIM also developed into KIM Plus because other parties began to become supporting parties for the government, such as PKB, PKS, and the NasDem Party. Thus, seven of the eight parliamentary political parties joined the Prabowo-Gibran government coalition.

On Tuesday, October 15, the chairman of the PDI-P (PDIP) DPP Puan Maharani said that his party would jointly build Indonesia in the upcoming Prabowo-Gibran government.

He also ensured that the meeting between Prabowo and the General Chair of the PDIP and the 5th President of the Republic of Indonesia Megawati Soekarnoputri would be held before the inauguration of the elected president and vice president was held on October 20. "Surely God willing, we will meet," he said.