Democracy under attack from all lines, religious extremists, businessman heavily attacked democracy. Where is democracy, was attacked by religious extremists through violence. meanwhile, businessmen attacked through money.
George W. Bush gathered 37million dollars, greater than that collected Bill Clinton or Bob Dole during the 1996 campaign. John Corzine, a former director of Goldman Sachs, issued a 36million dollars of his own pocket to win the Senate seat. Losing candidate, Michael Huffington, took as many as 30 million dollars when trying to get a Senate seat in California. In the meantime, Thu Sep 6 2007, Chung Mong-Koo (Hyundai Automotive Group Dedengkot of Cor-Sel) was sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment by the Seoul High Court. Chung submitted to pangadilan for providing a special fund worth millions of U.S. Dollars to bribe government officials, politicians, and bankers for the purposes of the company is headed by Chung.
Almost in all countries of the world, from Paris to Moscow, from London to Washington, companies and businessmen to fund the politicians and political parties. In America, for example, only 1 / 4 of one percent of the population to give 200 dollars or more to congressional candidates or political parties in the 1995-1996 election cycle and 96 percent of Americans do not give any money to politicians or parties at the federal level. America's largest 500 companies, on the other hand, gives 260 million dollars to Democratic candidates and the Republican Party from 1987until 1996.
In Indonesia too, the role of businessmen in a campaign finance of political parties have become public truth, and seen as normal in the democratic way of Indonesia. Until the view of political elites 'politics will not be won without a strong financial support' has been in the arena of politics menggurita this nation. In this context, 'why to campaign alone, a political party needs to raise so much?' Basically almost all political parties have no clear ideological basis, up to the process of differentiating, political parties are more likely to use the pattern of business strategy and marketing, it provides a large capital is the most appropriate solution to the political parties in order to survive. When political parties have chosen marketing strategy in the campaign, so the businessmen were given priority to gain access and offer programs and policies of political parties, the businessman bought this current political parties.
The entry of businessmen into the arena of politics is a choice and it is the amnesia right to choose, but which is opposed to the policy process of emasculation of political parties and candidates to control the political parties in a larger scale - ethical politics is the key to understanding the help posted by businessmen to any political party or government and political candidates from political parties, with only the pay, then the politicians and the government only needs to reduce the protection or regulation that inhibits the accumulation of profits of businessmen. This is the reward received by the businessman with the help of political parties.
Money is already a God in modern society, money does not just have economic functions as a medium of exchange, but also has mutated into a political function, in which policies and regulations can be purchased with money. So any business or entrepreneur is the most disadvantaged groups with the political function of money.
Money in the era of economic competition has become the commander and has the authority to influence human actions, not least, the money also became the most powerful institutions to reduce state authority covertly. In this condition, cheobol will become sole ruler in managing the political reality and even policy, controlled the money by private entrepreneurs and only for their business interests. As money has become the commander, the transparency and public benefits that are building democracy automatically alienated, until at last lost in the business, and melt dominance in the attitude of individualism, 'not' be found again 'sovereign people' that there is a 'hail of capitalism'.
Lapindo mudflow case is a pointer of how the role of benevolent capitalism mengkudeta the government and replace it with the 'apathy' in finding solutions to the victims of Lapindo mudflow-punisment never thrown from the government to Lapindo, 'power was so great what the government policy to control this Lapindo? ", practically, to understand this problem, simply by finding the relationship between Lapindo with SBY Abu Rizal Bakrie, where the largest shares of Lapindo is owned by the Bakrie and the key issue is the ethical policy.
The power of business has touched the lives of most details of the state, there is no space could not pass by a businessman, enough with all the money shall be opened wide and businessmen were allowed to mess up the policies and controls that will be born by the government. On the other hand, cheobol with money he has will be bringing anything from one country and jumped into another country and be able to make cheobol country to collapse at once, enough to draw some money from the national bank. Then the economy will necessarily messy. behold, how great cheobol power and authority beyond the power of this country, for democracy cheobol only be used as justification to act freely, because democracy is the institutionalization menyunguhkan freedom, including freedom of seeking benefits that exceeded the limit. In fact, democracy is not freedom without responsibility, but democracy is institutionalized in a responsible freedom for social life.
Democracy in Indonesia today, under attack almost from all lines of religion by groups attacking democracy ekstrimisnya with provocative language "democracy is a system of Kufr" and in the meantime, businessmen with money to attack democracy. As a result, the true supporters of democracy lost to rearrange this nation. Political Party as a vanguard of transformation to democratic values, even now stuck with a business-style marketing strategies. Chronic diseases are suffered by this country, the democratization process which essentially destroyed in various attacks by groups of religious-based extremism and businessman. No wise words, in addition to the cultural reform of the grass root level to the level of political elites and royalty in this country.
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