ARTI PENTING IDEOLOGI BAGI PARTAI POLITIK

Abstract

Politicalparty has an important role in thepolitical system Itfunctions such as political recruitment political
education political aggregation andpolitical socialization has been positioned on the basic structure ofdemocra
tic system In the reformation era almost all ofpolitical parties in Indonesia has been born accidentally without
goodpreparation on it Itjust becomes the expression ofpolitical elite power so then political party doesn t have
its own ideology or even identity In this sense ideology is very important as a guidefor the politicalparty actions
and as a measurementfor the voter to evaluate howfarpolitical elitefuoill their promises during campaign This
is a book review ofFirmanzah which talked about how to manage a political party by using ideology and a good
communication to the constituence