Kartel Politik dan Korupsi Politik di Indonesia

Yeni Sri Lestari(1),


(1) University of Teuku Umar

Abstract

Sistem reformasi di Indonesia telah menyuburkan demokratisasi dalam sistem pemerintahan. Namun, praktik korupsi politik juga semakin marak terjadi di kalangan elit politik. sistem politik multipartai yang membentuk partai kartel adalah salah satu faktor yang meningkatkan terjadinya korupsi politik ini. Partai kartel menciptakan sistem kerja sama yang mampu menjaga dan mengatur negara sesuai dengan kepentingan kelompoknya, terutama dalam mencari sumber pendanaan yang berasal dari keuangan negara. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara praktik partai kartel dengan kekalnya korupsi politik di Indonesia. Peran partai kartel terhadap terjadinya korupsi politik menjadi subjek utama artikel ini. Untuk memenuhi tujuan penulisan dalam artikel ini, maka contoh skandal kasus Bank Century yang melibatkan banyak elit politik akan dikaji dan dianalisis lebih mendalam. Metode kualitatif digunakan dalam kajian ini yang diperoleh melalui kajian literatur. Kajian ini menemukan bahwa sistem partai kartel telah memberikan keleluasaan bagi wujudnya korupsi politik, menghilangkan sistem checks and balances, matinya suara kebebasan, dan membawa harapan palsu kepada sistem demokrasi mapan sebuah pemerintahan negara.

System reform in Indonesia has fostered democratization of the government system. However, the practice of political corruption too often happens in the political elite. multi-party political system forming a cartel party is one of the factors that increase the incidence of this political corruption. Creating a cartel party cooperation system capable of maintaining and managing the state in accordance with the interests of the group, especially in seeking sources of funding from state finances. This article aims to determine the relationship between the practice of the cartel and its eternal party political corruption in Indonesia. The role of the cartel party against political corruption became the main subject of this article. To fulfill the purpose of writing this article, the example case of Bank Century scandal involving many political elite will be reviewed and analyzed more deeply. Qualitative methods used in this study were obtained through a review of the literature. This study found that the cartel party system already provides flexibility for his form of political corruption, eliminate the system of checks and balances, the demise of the voice of freedom, and bringing false hope to the democratic system established a state government.

Keywords

Indonesia; Party Cartel; Political Corruption

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