According to the laws in Indonesia, national and regional elections can only be participated by candidates who are supported by political parties, thus political parties played a dominant role in Indonesian politics.
Considering this fact, political parties can be regarded as the recruiters and incubators of political leaders in Indonesia.
In this regards, I would like to quote an article that I read on The Jakarta Globe below. Happy reading
Indonesia's Parties Fail to Incubate Leaders
John McBeth - Straits Times Indonesia | July 12, 2011
The saddest thing about the implosion of President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono's scandal-ravaged Democrat Party is the way it has seriously
damaged two of its youngest leaders - chairman Anas Urbaningrum and
Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng.
For them, there may be no way back.
Urbaningrum,
a 42-year-old East Java political science graduate is unique. In a
country where 54 percent of the population is under 30 and
new-generation figures are paradoxically in short supply, he is the
youngest politician to have headed a major political party.
By
crushing Mallarangeng, Yudhoyono's preferred candidate, in a
head-to-head vote last year, the party-savvy Urbaningrum offered at
least a glimmer of hope that Indonesia's political guard may be changing
as the country enters a second decade of democratic rule.
But
only a glimmer. Unless someone appears out of the woodwork in the coming
year, the field for the 2014 presidential race is likely to be filled
by many of the same familiar faces.
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10 comments:
saya ga mau pilih demokrat pemilu besok, sejauh blm ada kandidat yang pantas untuk jadi presiden
@R10,
Mudah2an di pemilu 2014 akan timbul tokoh2 baru yang lebih baik.
A depressing article. But I'm afraid it may hot the nail on it's head.
It would be a major disappointment if a younger generation couldn't take over in the next presidential and general elections indeed.
On the other hand I understand there are rumours about Sri Mulyani ( who is not that young btw)and the SRI Party and Joko Widodo ( who is fifty y.o now) could be another clean and able candidate in '14.
What solusion for it's problem
We are hope the Nation to ground up not problem up.
see u
2014 three years from now I hope there is a good Person will appear
@Colson,
Sri Mulyani has been alleged by the parliament that she has been responsible in the mysterious bail out of 6,7 Trillion state money to bank Century.
The KPK must investigate this allegation and clear her name, otherwise Sri Mulyani would face big difficulties.
While Joke Widodo (Mayor of Solo) is member of the opposition PDIP which plan to nominate Megawati again.
He has to go to the national arena first before he can get support to challenge Megawati.
@Mr Nyariadi,
As citizens we can only hope that there will be good leaders in the future.
@Smp3Lembang,
Yes we all hope that we will have good leaders in the future.
on PDIP: the grass root only care about soekarno's blood, not the capability of that person.. The top mostly cares about money.. so I dont think joko widodo will have much support in the party official.. but he would have more chance in winning than Puan based on capability though.
@Triesti,
Yes I agree that Joko Widodo is a much better (and tested) politician compared to Puan. Therefore he can be more popular in the national front.
Hi Harry,
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials" - Chinese proverb
That's why new blood need to be involved and not hindered.
Thanks for sharing Harry
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