Intelligence Politics
A healthy democracy requires the support of meritocracy based on effective collective intelligence. Regarding this, Thomas Jefferson said there was no safe depository for democracy except the people themselves.
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Yudi Latif
The most troubling development after 76 years of Indonesia\'s independence is the backwardness in the level and quality of our collective intelligence, even when compared to the achievements of neighboring countries. This is reflected not only in the deterioration of indicators of human quality, literacy and numeracy, and mastery of science and technology, but also in the poor quality of leadership intelligence, quality of legislation and policies, quality of judicial institutions\' decisions and the shallow quality of deliberations and argumentation in public discourse.
In fact, a healthy democracy requires the support of meritocracy based on effective collective intelligence. Regarding this, Thomas Jefferson said there was no safe depository for democracy except the people themselves. If we think that they are not smart enough to exercise control with sound wisdom, the cure is not to take control from the people, but to educate their wisdom through education. That is why even in liberal countries, such as the United States, there is a state obligation to organize compulsory education programs up to high school.