DEMOKRATISASI PARTAI DAN DILEMA SISTEM KEPARTAIAN DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Politicalparties are integralpart o f process of democratization in Indonesia. But, rather be the solution
of the problem in democratization o f the country, Indonesian political parties are still part of the problem. The
paper is aim to identify problem o f the parties in Indonesia and the party system. The paper describes that the
parties have at leastfour shortcomings as its basicproblem, i.e. institutionalproblem, leadershipproblem, structural
problem and ideological problem. This paper argues that to make political parties become the solution ofpolitical
problem in Indonesia, it has to be modernized. In the context of revision o f Decree o f Political Party, the party
system has to be fitted in with other system in Indonesian political system. The choice is not only to choose
between multi-party or bi-party system, but to choose the system that coherence with the whole political system in Indonesia.