Reduce the Multi Party for the Stability of National Development

Abstract

This paper tries to discuss the problems of multiparty systems in Indonesia. The main doctrine in a democratic system is the people, the people and the people. These three points can be interpreted (1) power originating from the hands of the people, (2) exercising by representatives representing the people, (3) aiming for the prosperity of the people. The political objectives in Indonesia as stated in the opening of the 1945 Constitution are essentially the prosperity of the people. So that the national development goals are in line with the legal basis in Indonesia. But in fact political practices in Indonesia are not appropriate even contrary to the formulation in the Basic Law. As a continuation of these deviant political practices, the direction of development has become biased because policy makers in this country use deviant political practices. This paper discusses the practice of political deviations that have an impact on the occurrence of national development goals in Indonesia. The author examines political issues and their impact on development with a social science approach, including; Sociology, History and Anthropology. The sociological approach looking at various socio-political events that are the impact of the implementation of multiparty in Indonesia. Historical approach looking at the development of the political system in Indonesia time to time. The last approach is Anthropology taking Clifford Geertz's work on trichotomy (Priayi, Santri, and Abangan) in Indonesian society as a form of community group classification. This analysis related to community groups (Priayi, Santri, Abangan) is then used to provide a normative picture elite policy makers in limiting and controlling the number of parties in Indonesia. The analysis is used because it sees that political parties that are currently developing are no longer proportional based on ideology or representation of community groups, but are based on material interests and tend to be transactional. Political parties are no longer the backrest of the ideology of their constituents, who are always close and feel educated to continue to gain political understanding, but nowadays, political parties have turned into hordes of political people to gain and maintain power.