The 2024 election starts in a few months and will soon enter the campaign period . Society synergizes to maintain peace during elections, and one way is by rejecting identity politics. They don’t want to be divided by elements who want polarization and create several opposing factions. Identity politics must be abolished to make elections successful.
General elections (Pemilu) will be held in 2024 but must be prepared from now so that later it will go well. All parties play a major role in creating peaceful elections and collaborate in order to create peaceful elections. Peace must be maintained so that the election can take place smoothly and be 100% successful.
One way to make elections successful is to reject identity politics. Meanwhile, the notion of identity politics is when a presidential candidate or legislative candidate uses an identity such as belief, race, background, as a differentiator from the others. When there is identity politics, the bad impact is that only citizens of the same race or background will support it, then insult other people because they have different identities.
The Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD stated that based on the survey results, most people were worried about polarization or division in the form of identity politics ahead of the elections. Meanwhile, identity politics is dangerous for the life of the nation and state.
Mahfud MD continued, choosing leaders based on their political identity is fine , but political identity should not be used as a tool to discriminate against certain groups. Then, elections are an arena for finding leaders, not looking for enemies. Don’t let the election cause divisions for years.
The issue of identity politics is feared to be increasing among the people. such divisions are intolerable for any annual stage of the election. Do not let any group or faction roll up the issue of identity politics. Because it can lead to polarization in society .
Identity politics is very dangerous because people who don’t share the same belief or ethnicity are enemies. It can even be used by a politician to bring down his political opponent. You do this by leading public opinion that a presidential candidate is unfit to be a leader because he comes from a certain ethnicity.
When there is a campaign that uses identity politics, it is dangerous because it can lead to discrimination and racism . Therefore , people are urged to reject identity politics and work together to avoid it. Cooperation to dispel identity politics was carried out with several parties such as Bawaslu (Election Supervisory Body), KPU (General Election Commission), and related security forces .
When there are members of the campaign team for candidates who use the issue of identity politics, the public can immediately report it to the Bawaslu and related security forces . When the case has been investigated , there are no more individuals who use identity politics as a weapon to win candidates in elections.
Meanwhile, the Coordinator of the Division of Prevention, Community Participation and Public Relations of Bawaslu Pasaman Barat Aditia Pratama stated that identity politics is one of the objects of surveillance so that it does not become an obstacle to democracy in the 2024 elections. Identity politics can be a factor undermining the quality of democracy today .
Don’t let any presidential or legislative candidates campaign using identity politics. All participants in the 2024 Election, so that they can act wisely when giving statements to the public. Don’t let this statement lead to division in public opinion , and politicians must be able to control themselves .
Identity politics is dangerous because it is used as a wrong campaigning tool. Where a candidate shows his identity as a certain tribe/ group that is superior to other tribes / groups , with the hope that it will attract the interest of voters of the same ethnicity. However, identity politics became a blunder because other tribes/groups felt they did not accept it and finally inflamed hostilities during the 2024 election campaign.
Identity politics is very dangerous because people who don’t share the same belief or ethnicity are enemies. It can even be used by a politician to bring down his political opponent. You do this by leading public opinion that a presidential candidate is unfit to be a leader because he comes from a certain ethnicity.
Identity politics can divide a nation because people are separated into several factions. There are those who defend certain presidential candidates who are considered religious, while there are those who love certain nationalist parties. Therefore, society rejects identity politics.
The community synergizes to reject identity politics in the 2024 Election. They work together with security forces, the KPU and Bawaslu to oversee that the Election runs successfully without any identity political campaigns. There should not be unscrupulous members of the candidate campaign team who use identity politics as a weapon during the campaign, because it will cause divisions in society.
