Abstract
Local elections are part of the framework of the mechanisms of democracy in Indonesia. In its essence, the purpose of direct democracy through the election mechanism is an open access to the widest possible public participation in determining the government leaders. Direct election is a mechanism that allows the conscious involvement of the people to choose their leaders, as practiced in Polis, Athens. This is what is called as political participation, the involvement of every citizen in the political process.Since the enactment of the 2005 elections in Indonesia, a number of issues emerged as the implications of the election in achieving the initial objectives. At the operational level, on Field survey there are problems in the aspects of voter registration, registration and establishment of regional head and deputy regional head, campaigning, voting and counting, as well as the establishment and ratification of the selected candidates. The urgency for indirect election seems need to be reconsidered to address a number of major issues that confront the implementation of direct democracy. If direct election is the antithesis of indirect election the other day, it would require an instrument that is able to answer the contrary antithesis raising the fundamental issues of indirect election. Above all the benefits of direct elections, which in turn indicates a failure at the implementation level, it seems require an alternative like switching into indirect election with a number of advantages.
Highlights
Local elections are part of the framework of the mechanisms of democracy in Indonesia
The purpose of direct democracy through the election mechanism is an open access to the widest possible public participation in determining the government leaders
All the benefits of direct elections, which in turn indicates a failure at the implementation level, it seems require an alternative like switching into indirect election with a number of advantages
Summary
Local elections are part of the framework of the mechanisms of democracy in Indonesia. Analysis by Fatoni (2010) that even only identifying problems of Pemilukada in the field, but the surprisingly conclusions and recommendations eventually supporting the development of this writing, in which for every modern country with vast territory and large population, the principles of democracy can be done through a system of representation (Representative Government), another reason that the head of the district and the district representatives as the head of government elected by local parliaments are responsible to the voters in the maintenance of the local government. If the last three conclusions are integrated, so there will be an indication where the possibility of democratic mechanisms through other alternative can answer the above problems, which is the Pemilukada under democratic, efficient, legitimate, participatory, accountable, communicative, and the creation of a system of effective representation and accountability.
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