The Problems of Political Parties and Elections Draw the Character of Pancasila Legislative Members

DOI

10.2991/978-2-38476-024-4_38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Political parties; general elections; Pancasila character; the legislature

Abstract

Political parties have been regarded as the pillars of democracy. It means that political parties are the pillars or backs of democracy. Thus, political parties are present as instruments capable of scanning all kinds of people’s aspirations to be later championed into public policies by the state. However, in reality, political parties are often familiar with the disease of forgetting, namely forgetting their orientation as a buffer for democracy, as an instrument for channeling people’s aspirations. If one observes the status and existence of post-reform political parties, they have not been able to reflect themselves as a political organization that has the duty and obligation to fight for the interests of the people and the state. Today’s political parties have not been able to form themselves into parties that are indeed the mouthpiece of the people’s aspirations. More importantly, political parties have not been able to become solid and mature parties. Direct legislative elections currently result in large costs that must be incurred by legislative candidates, so that only candidates who have excess finances can nominate themselves as legislative candidates, this causes the quality of candidates to be less qualified because what candidates need is only in terms of finance, not knowledge, ability. and integrity. The approach in this research was based on a normative juridical approach. The data were collected through a literature review. This research was descriptive analysis research. The results The election implementation has not been able to realize legislative members with Pancasila character because the aspects that are initiated in the process of nominating legislative members in the general election for legislative members do not reflect social justice, the selection of legislative candidates from political parties are currently not clear in standards, many candidates for legislative members impromptu which only has popularity and financial power without the support of knowledge, competence in terms of legislative duties and functions. The huge money politics in the legislative general election process results when an elected member candidate thinks of returning the capital they spent, of course, it will result in corrupt practices after they are elected. The number of violations or electoral crimes for which there is no clear resolution, should every election violation or crime disqualify the candidate for legislative members. to realize legislative members with Pancasila character through increasing the integrity of legislative members, political parties in determining candidates for legislative members, go through very strict stages of selections starting from track records and ethics. In addition, political parties do not burden legislative members with their interests of political parties. The costs of legislative candidates in general elections are financed by the state, so those legislative candidates are not burdened with very high costs so and after being elected they are not burdened with the costs already incurred.

Copyright

© 2023 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Dani Durahman
AU  - Eni Dasuki Suhardini
AU  - Diliya Mariam Rinjani
AU  - Sonyi Sonyi
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/04/19
TI  - The Problems of Political Parties and Elections Draw the Character of Pancasila Legislative Members
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference On Law, Economics, and Health (ICLEH 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 385
EP  - 400
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-024-4_38
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-024-4_38
ID  - Durahman2023
ER  -