Trajectory of Nationality Politics

KOMPAS/HERU SRI KUMORO

Chairman of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Arief Budiman (center) stands on stage alongside presidential and vice-presidential candidate pairs Joko Widodo-Ma\'ruf Amin and Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno before the first debate of the 2019 presidential election in Bidakara Hotel, Jakarta, on Thursday (17/01/2019). The theme of the debate was law, human rights, corruption and terrorism.

The year 2019 is a political year. Its hustle and bustle have been felt for a long time. Ever since Jokowi\'s victory in 2014, it seems that one thing that is truly unfinished is melting the internal atmosphere of the two competing groups, that today find their rhetoric extracted from the animal kingdom: kecebong (tadpole) and kampret (microbat). These two animals perfectly symbolize an all-out feud.

Of course, politics is a means to gain power. At this point there is no problem, but it becomes a concern when the strategy being implemented is justified by using any means. How, for example, it seems as if there is no more barbaric space now than on social media, which should be a bridge to building cohesiveness, connectivity and collectivity. The desire to share is more dominant than filtering.