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Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Moh. Mahfud MD delivered the Culture Speech in 2012, titled "Restoring the Rule of People’s Democracy We" at Graha Bhakti Culture, Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM), Jakarta, Saturday (10/11) at night.

Attending the event, hundreds of people from various national leaders, the arts and culture, as well as a number of electronic and print media helped packed the event. Speech of Culture 2012 event was organized Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) in cooperation with the National Center for the Arts Is Jakarta (BP-PKJ, TIM) to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Taman Ismail Marzuki every 10 November.

In his speech, Mahfud Indonesia invites the public to see the application of the democratic system is used for this. According to him, democracy of the Indonesian nation today seems stagnant, inclined wild and excessive. Many signs of democracy intruded on the pretext of democracy. "Democracy is used for corruption, so that the term corruption, through democracy," he explained.

After the amendment of the 1945 Constitution, Mahfud said in his speech, democracy, the Indonesian nation was manifested in almost all sectors of life, and better royally. But it turns out, democracy is still a lot to save a lot of issues, which, civil society continues to grow but does not offset the social order. "Freedom as a distinctive symbol of democracy would lead to anarchy behaviors and hedonistic as opposed to democracy itself," he explained. In politics, power relations marred by nepotism and transactional politics. "Many officials indicated, even some have been shown to behave corruptly," he said.

However, Mahfud agrees, the choice of using the democratic system through the preparation of the 1945 Constitution is a way for the benefit of the state and nation. "There is no other system as democratic, although democracy is not a perfect system," said the former Member of Parliament. "It’s not a perfect democracy. But the ugly-ugly that exist in democracy, is still better than no democracy. That option founding of our nation," said Mahfud again.

Crisis of Democracy

Besides speaking democracies, Mahfud also explained about the rampant corruption in the Indonesia-based democracy. He said although Indonesia did not want to call democracy is based on corruption, but the fact is the soaring level of corruption in Indonesia. This marks the crisis of democracy is very dangerous. "Our democracy is too" muddy "at this time, inundated corruption that always make sense cunning to outsmart and corruption through the democratic process," he said.

The question is why Indonesian people cannot get out of this severe crisis of democracy? To answer that question, Mahfud suggest the need to make a clear line of democracy in order to know the position where the problem occurs. In this case, on a conceptual level in the 1945 Constitution, said Mahfud, democracy imposed by the Indonesian people no problem.

However, Mahfud view, the crisis of democracy that occurred in this country occurred in the level of implementation, not in the conceptual anymore. "Therefore, at this time to think about how the system is run, and not how the system is designed (debatable)," said Mahfud. "How bad is any disease of democracy, we should not give up, let alone to say goodbye (goodbye) democracy," message Former Defense Secretary under President Gus Dur.

Mahfud also gave the final speech that democracy (people sovereignty) and nomocracy (rule of law) must be consistent. Therefore, democracy is not likely to be realized without rule of law. "Democracy is governed and limited by the rule of law, while the law itself is determined through democratic means," he said.

Keep in mind, Mahfud was asked to convey this culture’s speech because he has assessed the credibility of the rule of law in Indonesia. No doubt, many people see he is a character that has appeared firm and become a "fortress" and a milestone reference in situations full of question marks this. In previous years, the speech delivered cultures other figures. (Shohibul Umam / mh/Yazid.tr)

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