Indonesian Citizen Character Analysis

Character and Mental of Indonesian Citizen towards a Successful Political System

Indonesia is now standing as a big democratic country towards international environment. The freedom could be seen everywhere. Freedom of speech, media, and governmental transparency such as in a general direct elections. Indonesian citizen able to enjoy their daily life in such an open environment. However, the political situation within the country is not facing a smooth process. Seen by the amount of corruptions cases occurred and many other cases related to government political affairs. The instability in political or economic aspect has not been achieved. Indonesia’s democracy succeed in procedural way but in another part it still has not change the live
If seeking for a suitable political system for the recent Indonesia, I would choose inland agrarian. A suitable political system to be implemented in Indonesia despite being a democratic country. Inland agrarian is a system where the government has definite role to control its people, its resources and so on. It means there will be clear borders and rules in order to maintain the state and the society. This system is identic as a homogenous system to reach an equality for all. In other words, to have the sovereignty and the welfare, everything put on the same level. Inland agrarian characteristic also falls on the main territory which is the dry area (land) to be explored. Agricultural becomes the lead to build the
As long as I figured, most of Indonesian people has low motivation towards something –lazy to do anything. Even though there are a lot of good Indonesia citizen who being active and full of motivation but in other side those negatives vibe is still exist. Mochtar Lubis in his book Manusia Indonesia: Sebuah Pertanggungjawaban even defined Indonesian people as someone who is hypocritical, irresponsibility, feudal-minded, superstitious, weak character, wasteful, lazy, grumbler, jealous quickly, pretentious and imitator. Well, it sounds pathetic but we cannot deny if those thing is actually happen in our society. Therefore Indonesia need a system that able to lead its people to do something properly.
Furthermore, this citizen behavior is connected to the political culture that Indonesian society have. Political culture refers to a set of widely shared beliefs, values and norms concerning the relationship of citizens to government and between one another. In other words, it is something that government and citizen owned and develop. Almond and Verba categorize three kinds of political