Internal Power of Dynasty Politic Party

During the election period 2014, all of the internal parties are hectic to manage and arrange the appropriate strategy to win the election. Because internal committee party will be the one who in charged of all responsibility of election result, and one of them is the leader. That’s why, a leader of party certainly have a solid team and right-hand person to help him or her to running the internal committee party.

Actually most of leader parties in Indonesia are strong figure and skillful enough to lead and control the party. Even though, how great they are, they (leader) have a secret key to sustain their position, which is authority or power in party 

A power can regulate the system politic in their party. The power can derived from they contribution in politic for long-term period, so they have capability as the leader because of his or her experience, and also he or she can build the power through his or her track record in politic organization. Or they come from politic family, which become the background for his or her to running as a leader. This kind of leader has a transmission power from the family. All parties leader who has power and authority of party absolutely will not let the party go with someone who has no contribution. They will set their right-hand or their representative to be the internal of the parties, in order to help his or her to control the party.

This kind of power transmission will raise dynasty politic in party. For me, the most interesting transmission power in party is when a parent gives credibility to their children. This is a public secret when there is a leader put their children in the structure of organization or party. I though this is a funny phenomena where the leader being afraid of losing his or her power in party. If they are really good, they suppose to be confidence and will not have negative thinking if they will loss the power, right? There are some examples of dynasty politic; PDIP leaded by Megawati and now she looks like transfer her power to her daughter Puan Maharani, who officiated as Chief of DPP-PDIP in Politic. NasDem that leaded by Surya paloh also put his son in the commite as the Head of Gadra Pemuda NasDem. Also Demokrat in their crisis stage, SBY set his son Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono to be the jendral secretary (sekjen) of Demokrat.

These three parties becomes the sample of power transmission in internal party. I believe, there is a secret motivation to put their child in the party committee. But basically, transmission of internal power actually aims to keep maintaining the structure of party and also control the role of leader who owns the power in a party. But there is misuse of power transmission, which gravitates to create personal importance in party. I though, the effect of having internal power in dynasty politic will interfere the value of politic. Also there will be have a politic deal between internal committee. Afterward, this phenomenon will affect to socio-politic in Indonesia If I see in macro side. Thus I really disagree of this kind of political form in party.

Even though the family relation is strong enough to do power transmission, I think it will not work as they thought. Nowadays, people in internal party are smarter and they will have back up strategy to oppose the discretion if they feel the power transmission between families will affect the party’s work ethic. 

I feel regret of this kind of private importance in a party, which transform power. It can affects to the democracy system generally later. We will not see the effect now, but later on when the dynasty politic become the kingdom which control the politic system in Indonesia. And the worst thing is there is not law, which establish the dynasty politic in party. My assumption, if the dynasties politic will continue to the next level that can generate the feudalism in party. Feudalism that I mention means negative effect of having more power to control. The leader will think if they have absolute authority. So, they will feel full ownership of the party.  

Hopefully, this kind of power transmission in internal party will not continue in the next election. Because if this happen over and over for long term, my assumption is this democracy country will be change to the monarchy system.