BUDAYA POLITIK MATANG SEJAHTERA: SUATU ANALISIS

Abstract

Politics is a crucial necessity in human lives. It holds the platform to systematically construct and organize our society and norms. Humans generally cannot co-exist with each other without an organized politics system. Ironically, politics is always misconstrued as dirty, twisted, cunning, and misleading specifically when it involves parties in politics. This mentality is eventually indoctrinated and became part of the culture among the Malaysian. Evidently, any discussion regarding politics usually becomes a sensitive issue filled with sentiments. The challenge is when the doctrine has become worsened with the attitudes and the extreme stance of politics activists who propagate unnecessarily in supporting their political parties; otherwise known as political extremist. These extremists culturalized the act of humiliating, degrading and being physical towards their oppositions to be in power. What is more concerning is that this unhealthy competition has normalized the culture of making stories about people, creating and spreading misleading views of the oppositions which are major sins in the name of Allah SWT. Consequently, this leads to prolonged disagreements and creating conflicts that jeopardises unity. Therefore, the politics culture especially amongst Muslims throughout all parties in this country should be scrutinized, to avoid being a bad representative to the beauty of the religion itself. This study will focus on how far does the political culture perspective of ‘Mature and Prosperous Political Culture’: Budaya Politik Matang Sejahtera (BPMS) could be the alternative/solution to change the political culture among the Malaysians. Qualitative methods are used in this study such as analysis of books and related articles, as well as interviews with authorities, namely amongst the founders to the BPMS concept themselves. In support of the Prime Minister’s urge to avoid immoral sentiments of politics, hence, this article suggests for this BPMS concept to be brought forward and studied academically as an initiative to overcome the culture of party extremism and unethical politics among Malaysians, including the politicians. It is hoped that the findings of this study can solve the conflicts related to the political culture of the Malaysians which is mostly based on sentiments rather than rationales or facts. This is a crucial issue for our country as it encourages unhealthy conflicts and creates racial division. The fact is that division will only weaken unity and will inflict on the stability of the country.