Building Democracy Throught the Election of the Head of Political Parties
Sulardi
Facuty of Law, University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Abstract
Political party is an urgent asset for democracy, since it has greatly strategic functions and roles in establishing democracy in a country. Henceforth, the existence of political parties is a necessity in a democratic country. To build democracy and democratization, it is the party itself that should first apply the democratization. Up to now, Indonesia is still processing and finding an ideal form towards a democratic life (democratization) as stated in the Constitution. Certainly “the process towards” democracy should be implemented in all aspects, including the internal democracy in the political party. Democratization in political party has not worked well, since it is found out that in some political parties, the appointment of their leaders is still influenced by the founding fathers or based on the family system even, some schisms occur when the parties choose their chairs. Building democracy starts from democratization in a political party through the determination of its chair. The selection may be conducted democratically if a regulation has been prepared since the beginning as an assurance of a democratic election of its head. No “family characteristics” in a political party exactly may result in the construction of a political party dynasty. Certainly, the tenure limitation of a head of a political party would produce a culture of giving an open responsibility that his political party programs are successful or not.
Keywords: democratization, political party, chair
Topic: Constitutional Law