Almira Fidela Artha (airafidel@gmail.com)
The existence of artists in Indonesia is very entertaining for society.
Even, every artist always has thousand or maybe million fans and big fans spread over an area. By
this condition, the popularity of artists were highlighted by political parties
in Indonesia to join in legislative election. Each political party is competing
to get vote as much as possible in order to get seat in Senayan using artist
popularity. In other word, if a party has many cadres who sit in Senayan, it
will increase the electability of the party in the presidential election.
Therefore, celebrity politics phenomena should be avoided because it can lead
us to inanimate political condition.
Firstly, celebrity is just as a vote getter for political party to grab
a seat in legislative election. In this decade, celebrity politics phenomena
increasingly widespread. The function of artists are not only as entertainer,
but also as a regulator for society. Using the popularity of artists are the
easiest way for political parties to find more seat in legislative election
because political parties will not spend much cost to promote their candidate.
Clearly, this celebrity politics phenomena is instant way that political
parties had done to get power. Akbar Tanjung, a former chairman of the
Functional Groups Party (Golkar) (“Caleg Artis Non”:2013), states that he was
dissapointed because a lot of legislative candidate are not from caderization
process but instantly from some groups who have certain power such us artists,investors,
businessmen. He also claims that it had violated the principles of democratic
caused functions of political parties diverge.
Secondly, the quality, capability,
intellectual, experience of legeslative candidate become unimportant. The fact
is political situation in Indonesia last ten years has shifted. The essence of politicas room together to
build a good society shifted as private room. Meanwhile, political parties as
political actors also shifted the function. At first, political parties are media
for society’s aspiration, nowdays it changes into industrial power by personal
individual to get private room. One of the shifting is celebritywho bound by
political parties to get power in parliament. Unfortunatelly, the political
parties don’t care whether their candidates have good quality, morality or not
but the most important is “private room”.Tjipta Lesmana, political observers,
explains “a lot of artists never give contribution at all. It is causedby
stupid political party. The member of representatives is very respectable
position, they have very heavy responsibility”(“Caleg Artis Jangan”:2013).
Thirdly, “idol syndrome” being the reason to vote than “aspiration”. In this
case, the presence of an artist is very profitable for political party. Need to
know, the duties and authority of parliament members, point eleven is
“menyerap, menghimpun, menampung dan menindaklanjuti aspirasi masyarakat”
(“Tugas dan Wewenang”: -). It means that every member in parliament must be
represent society to aspire all of their needs, their desires at government
level. However, an aspiration by society will be realized if our representative
knows everything about the society condition well. To understand the condition
of our society the member of parliament as representative must have skill,
intellectual, experience in politics. It is quite different with tedency of
artist who want to be one of member in parliament, they just want to boost the
electability of particular political party. Then, when they succeed to get seat
in parliament they can’t aspire desires of the community. Thus, people must be
aware to choose political representatives. It must be not only well-known, but
must be able to aspirate society needs and wants.
Celebrity politics bring many pro and contra.
In contrary some people state that everyone has right to be politician likes
the fundamental’s rule Undang-Undang Dasar Republik Indonesia 1945 Pasal 28
which states:
“(1)setiap orang berhak mengembangkan diri
melalui pemenuhan kebutuhan dasarnya, berhak mendapat pendidikan dan memperoleh
manfaat dari ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, seni dan budaya, demi meningkatkan
kualitas hidupnya dan demi kesejahteraan umat manusia.
(2) setiap orang berhak untuk memajukan
dirinya dalam memperjuangkan haknya secara kolektif untuk membangun masyarakat,
bangsa, dan negaranya”
If we talk about human right, it can be true
that everyone has right to build their nation, to advance their nation but when
we talk about feasibility, political orientation it cannot be justified.
Regardless that eachperson has right to put themselves forward as
representatives they must have very good quality in capability and morality.
Because quality and morality are important to build prosperity of a nation.
Some people state that politics is no longer
considered something horrible, but because many artists entered the circle, it
becomes something entertaining. We must aware that politics and entertaining
world are different. Politics is the root of society’s life; it’s not simple as
entertaining world. Politics actually is a "vehicle" used by leaders
to achieve the expected goals for society. Underlyingtendency of artists
entered into the world of politics is to help a particular political party to
boost the ranking in order to get place in the government system. Data from
Sindo Newspaper research (“Caleg Artis Tak”:2013) strengthen this argument,
there are 76.5% of the 400 respondents sepread in six citiesare agree that artist as candidates of representative no
more just to boost the vote of a political party.
In short, there are many reasons that
celebrity politics can lead us to inanimate political condition. Celebrity
politics is a symbol of lack of good recruitment process by parties in
Indonesia. To build a conductive political condition , the essence of politic
and the function of politics parties must be true. All forms of political
deviation such us celebrity politics to boost vote must be solved wisely by
good caderizazion process.
REFERENCES
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2013 from http://www.dpr.go.id/id/tentang-dpr/tugas-dan-wewenang.
-. 2013. Caleg Artis Jangan Masuk Senayan.
Retrieved on May 15, 2013 from
http://www.jpnn.com/read/2013/05/06/170628/caleg-artis-jangan-sampai-masuk-senayan-.
-. 2013. Caleg Artis non Kaderisasi
Mengecewakan. Retrieved on May 17, 2013
fromhttp://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/node/234739.
-. 2013. Caleg Artis Tak Menjamin
Elektabilitas. Retrieved on May 17, 2013 from
http://m.koran-sindo.com/node/311757.
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