By: Mohammad Irfandi )*
The high public interest will be a grand event the local elections in Indonesia, followed by warming of the political situation in the midst of speculation and viewpoints about the thought of prospective head region, become distinctive characteristic Unison welcomes the Election 2017 in Indonesia. With the motive of want to drop another couple and gained a lot of noise at the time of the election, will political campaign team head area and will continue to make efforts known black campaign can tarnish and damage the reputation of the Indonesian politics.
Not long ago, Indonesia surprised by the various demonstrations in the name of religion issue to drop one in Jakarta regional head candidates. Demo was conducted by a group of Muslim organizations in general on behalf of the people who are Muslims reject one Jakarta governor candidate to advance as a leading Jakarta.
Meanwhile, Senior Researcher Center for Population and Policy Studies (CPPS), Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Muhadjir Darwin asked President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to intervene in anticipation of the practice of criminalization of politicians using the guise of religion. We must prevent criminalization of politicians under the pretext behind the religious discourse because nowadays the concept of abuse of a politician using religion, began to frequent, so the speech may still be on the level of acceptable or “acceptable” could turn out to be not acceptable, for their perversion facts therein.
And he added, as an example, the Ahok case deemed offensive and insulting the Koran, it becomes very hot. In fact, if examined closely there is actually a removal action or cutting sentences in the transcript of the news in their entirety. And when it’s delivered, finally angered a group of parties. Though Jakarta characters known to be very appreciative of plurality and diversity, as in the capital city was inhabited by the entire community of religious faith and belief.
Observing that, in order to change the situation towards a better, everyone is expected to respect each other, including on religious diversity that is owned by the people of Indonesia are heterogeneous. Especially considering the head region is one of the public figures where every word and behavior will be a concern for the people they lead and all the elements that paying attention to him. Therefore, we as a society do not use the issue of religion as an excuse to harm politics in our country and are expected to each participant’s local elections, not to use the issue of religion and other issues that lead to a fundamental difference for the people of Indonesia in conducting political campaigns, because it becomes a mirror to us all that the world of Indonesian politics is still far from healthy and quality Political criteria if it was proven that the practice primarily black campaign that raised racial issues. Let’s keep the comfort and tranquility along with political produce healthy, advanced, and qualified.
)* Indonesia’s Political Economy Observer
