Anthropology Beliefs Rocky Gerung Philosophy Lecturer FIB UI
Failure to institutionalize democracy, or at least lack of orientation to guide the institutionalization of the idea that, to bring political anxiety for those who are willing to realize an open society.
Enlarged political space even more pronounced now occupied by the workers 'identity politics', to those who fight for an absolute political ideals, especially since the political struggle based on religious doctrine. Over the final conviction of "political morality" of religion, which is partly a continuation of the obsessive debate about the basic state at the beginning RI establishment, political gain reperkusi historical identity of similar developments in the international world.
Globalization is not seen by the constellation of identity politics as a means of global ideas, but in fear as a barrier implementation agamais political beliefs. Market fundamentalism fundamentalism dealing with values, not in the synthetic efforts to achieve relative stability of the modern world system, but face to face in battle categorical about absolute truth. Categorically defined globalization as a source of the destruction of civilization, while religion, in its conservative version, proposed as the only solution a new civilization.
Kontrapolasi Although it contains many falsehoods, considering how often religious kohesifitas divided because of political competition within the group itself, but the general tone of the global political broadcast political disharmony between the supporters and defenders of cosmopolitan ethics of political logic of the hereafter.
In the jargon of clash of civilization, psychology stored absolute values of the global political competition. Absolute values have exceeded the conventional parameters of world politics. This phenomenon is quite visible: the accumulation of capital and technology is no longer the main value being pursued, but merely a tool to realize a dream of an absolute ideology. In the practice of modern terrorism, this principle works very perfect.
Construction of global historical background is then the development of identity politics in Indonesia today. However, political sources of identity that also has local roots. Indeed the condition of the New Order authoritarianism has hindered the cultural articulation of identity politics that, through political techniques corporatism, co-optation, and repression. New Order economy has functioned memoderatkan social distribution of political identities, through the monetization of public life, and welfare of people of various incentives. However, anthropology is apparently really strong nation rests on the anthropology of belief, namely the tendency to see life ideologically, in absolute terms. As a result, the appearance of identity politics became re-experiencing so when the political and economic openness decreased maximal total.
Democratic social contract We certainly do not want to return to the authoritarian atmosphere because it is not a guarantee of democracy within the framework of political exchange with the prohibition against identity politics. We want to seek is a framework of democracy that is able to appreciate the anthropological condition of this nation, at once able to develop a culture of criticism of individuals in the political culture, namely social culture can prevent manifestations of the absolute identity politics demands it. Such culture-tamadimaksudkan first to encourage the exchange of interests between citizens, based on the principle that politics is a temporary phenomenon which must be separated from permanent obsessions.
We have chosen democracy. Choosing a political run compound. Choosing implement human rights. Therefore, we must receive the highest consequence, the plurality must produce objective impermanence. There is no finality in a pluralistic society. Democracy can not be sponsoring a single political viewpoint. Democracy is a reasonable assurance of the diversity of individual life goals. In this way, human rights can be maintained optimally. Therefore, the maximum that could be provided facilities of democracy is a secular constitution for consensus among various interests temporary. This is the real social contract in public life, namely that the political distance between citizens only should be measured based on the verses of the constitution, and not with the Sacred Scriptures.
Accept pluralism means accepting his political ethics, namely that all politics is an absolute obsession, the pursuit of finality, should only be practiced in private. This is not discrimination in a democracy, but the consequences.
That is, as far as "identity politics" only meant to articulate, then the democratic system must accommodate and treat it as a politics of difference, namely the marginal votes that must be protected. However, once he began to mean accumulative, that is trying to homogenize the public space to introduce the principles of absolute political, democracy must be rejected because it threatens the basic principle of democracy itself: the public space should not be formulated in the final. He must be free from absolute obsessions.
Political space is relatively space, space falibilis, profane space. That is why we recycle the political every five years. However, we do not make the election to the Lord.
