Democracy, Direct Presidential Election and Challenge of Deep Divide State: Politics in an Age of Distrust

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10.2991/978-2-38476-174-6_29How to use a DOI?

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Direct presidential election; the age of distrust; divided state

Abstract

When Indonesia’s President Soeharto step aside from the government in 1998, we believe Indonesia was changing into democratic regime. In 2004, it was the first time, Indonesia conducted direct presidential election. The changing of election system from MPR (People Consultative Assembly) into direct system with one vote, one person, one value (OPOVOV) would bring the transformation into representative and democratic form of government. After 25 years of reformation era and 5 times period of elections, democracy as a form of more legitimate representative government has not been accompanied by genuine effort to tackle the problems of transformation of social structure in the divided nation. Direct presidential elections brought many gap in society economically, socially and political issues. This article present some of crucial gap of democracy from theory into practice, especially democratic elitist and liberal. In theory, democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal. In practice, there is a steady erosion of confidence in the presidential election in Indonesia. Amid this challenge, the paradox between the majority votes for President in election and day to day politics, has resulted the unpopular policies such as many regulations on IKN, Omnibus law on employment and – now on Draft UU on Health which is more alliance to the big corporations rather to the interests of the people of Indonesia. Therefore, it suggest a way to rethink democracy direct presidential election in the age of distrust.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chusnul Mar’iyah
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/01/08
TI  - Democracy, Direct Presidential Election and Challenge of Deep Divide State: Politics in an Age of Distrust
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Democracy and Social Transformation (ICON-DEMOST 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 177
SN  - 2352-5398
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