JAKARTA - Researcher of the Parliamentary Concerned Community Forum (Formappi) Lucius Karus said Anies Baswedan's statement highlighting the relationship between officials and traders should be an autocritical for himself as well as the party that supports him.
Lucius assessed that Anies' statement should not be specifically addressed to certain people or parties because almost all political forces practice the same thing. They make political parties a political vehicle for entrepreneurs.
"Anies should have auto-criticized himself and his political parties. When Anies conveyed it to the public, he seemed to forget that around him the practice of dealing with traders and politicians also occurred," said Lucius in Jakarta, Tuesday, May 23.
Lucius conveyed that today's political facts did mention a strong relationship between officials and traders or businessmen. According to Lucius, the governance of political parties, all of which tend to be oligarchical, maintains well the relationship between the authorities and these entrepreneurs.
In fact, said Lucius, political parties who claim to have a good regeneration system in the end have to compromise with entrepreneurs for the survival of these political parties. Without financial support, party-wheeled entrepreneurs will lose money if they only rely on donations or members' contributions. Lucius said that no political party will be free from mutual relations with traders or businessmen.
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"That's a fact and Anies shouldn't be very proud to reveal it. In fact, he shouldn't even issue criticism to the public about it because he himself should be aware as a politician that he cannot be free to regulate entrepreneurs who finance his campaign accommodation or the supporting political parties," he said.
Lucius considered Anies' statement only based on the electoral political aspect. Anies, he said, wanted to get support from the public who might believe that he was free from the grip of traders in his politics.
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