Memorabilia Politica Reforma

KOMPAS/RADITYA HELABUMI

Constitutional Court justices, led by Chief Justice Anwar Usman, read out a verdict at the Constitutional Court building in Central Jakarta on Wednesday (18/12/2019). The Constitutional Court rejected a judicial review on Article 7 of Law No. 10/2016 on the requirement for candidacy of regional heads. The lawsuit was filed by Ahmad Wazir Noviandy, a former regent of Ogan Ilir, who failed to take part in regional elections because he had been involved in a drug case.

Memorabilia, the remembrance of something beautiful and proper, maybe even obligatory to remember, is very important to correct past mistakes for a better future. Political momentum that deserves to be remembered and must be contemplated in the present context is the heroic memory of the empowerment of civil society that joined hands with other sociopolitical forces to seize people\'s sovereignty from the grip of political oligarchs that had monopolized power for decades. A wave of enthusiasm for winning the people\'s sovereignty was able to conquer the rulers who in the 1990s were nearly impossible to shake. Then, a political reform baby was born. Although still a "toddler", the little creature was able to produce some phenomenal regulations that can potentially eliminate chronic diseases that had proliferated for decades; corruption, collusion and nepotism (KKN).

But, unfortunately, taking care of a democracy baby is not easy. In its growth, the little baby is deficient in nutrients due to a disease-carrying virus, which has caused the people’s sovereign state to be weak and almost paralyzed. Luckily it is not an idiot. The ferocious virus is self-interest and the desire for pleasure of power that is increasingly out of control. So deadly is the virus\' penetration that the authorities are addicted.