Coalition Without Substance
The great effort of lust to be enthroned as the presidential power makes the eyes of the heart blind. They forget that the superiority of being able to bargain to form a coalition comes from the people's trust.
J Kristiadi
The festival to celebrate the people's sovereignty in choosing a presidential and vice-presidential candidate who will serve as captain for the five years leading up to Golden Indonesia 2045 is only one and a half years away (February 2024). However, the political stage has only been treated to scenes of political actors who are busy preparing themselves to play serial dramas to form a coalition. The comedy-laden simulacra started several months ago and is expected to end only after the determination of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates in November 2023.
The political stage should be a vehicle for fighting for the quality of ideas, debating fresh ideas, so as to produce a synthesis that can become the five-year agenda of the elected president and vice president. Lots of important homework requires thinking, broad and deep insight, so that the new government has guidelines and makes breakthroughs in dealing with complex and acute global and national problems: for example, geopolitical dynamics that are difficult to anticipate and increasingly fierce global competition. Domestically, two acute problems, poverty and unemployment, need shortcuts so that they can immediately be resolved.