Politics (Not) Exact Science

Not how long, Election 2009 will start. Some 44 political parties took part in the "democratic parties" this time. Then there are about 560 seats of the House of Representatives members divided in 77 regional elections will diperebutkan candidates legislative members.

Later, in the face, and both political parties (Parpol) and members of legislative candidates (Caleg), both "three-quarter money race race conquer the people. If there are parties who have a large fund, they will be diligent to advertise themselves in various mass media. So also with Caleg, they are not ashamed anymore photos dipampang in the streets. The aim is that people know and want to select them.

During the campaign, they will be diligent in visiting various places, especially in the pockets they vote. Not a secret anymore that in the visit, they will menebar vision, mission, giving the party a little, and do not forget to give political promises.

From the people who live in the city center until they are living in the tip of the island they will go. They are not concerned with kumuhnya Muara Baru area by the flooding that often rob, for example, or the sun and heat exhaustion sengatan that they felt. They pursue sound engine.

However, when Parpol get the sound and Caleg are selected, they still compete akankan visit pemilihnya community? Masihkan their sweat and bersimbah willing to come to the alley-alley slums just say thank you because they have chosen? They only pursue sound engine.

There is a study that says that no one from the bottom of the board members visited the center or after the selected area (kompas.com). Although the research conducted Kalyanamitra is devoted to women politicians, but not much different from the male politicians.

This phenomenon is already a secret and there is no improvement from year to year. Isn'T to visit their constituents, wong II during the hearing on 24 November - 19 December 2008 only ago, board members always attend the plenary meeting only 116 people from 550 members of the council (Kompas, 10 / 1).

Attend the plenary meeting that has become its obligations and as representatives of the people alone, they are often absent, especially must come down. But he said, their absence is to visit constituents in these areas. Lho, not an opportunity that can be obtained when the recess?

Beans and skin
Perhaps we still remember the slogan "forget the bean skins" are often defined with the people forget the other people who render a success against him. Beans will be forgotten after the skin and seeds of peanut dituai have economic value. Nutshell dicampakkan and will be discarded as such. But because the skin, can grow peanuts, protected sun and rain.
Not good when the slogan was continuously adhere to the board members. Community diibaratkan with the "skin" dikecewakan often by the "nuts" mean that the board members.

Even worse when added with the metaphor "a catch". Like when the elections such as now, many party and Caleg the mengubar promise because there is a political free. Legislative members to be elected.

Being a member of the legislative notabene is representative of the people, not easy work. In the study of Islam, a Amirul Believers, Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz, even crying when receiving the position to become a leader in the Arab land. He is considered as a test and remember the poor people, mothers are widows, who have many children, a little sustenance, and people in the prisoner. Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz know that soon he will be asked pertanggungjawabannya.

Visit the constituent assembly with the aim to know how the conditions and any problems in society, is also one of responsibility of members to the legislative pemilihnya. That way, people do not feel neglected, feel even get media direct aspiration, not only to see members of the legislative meeting to create rules.

No one when every member of the legislative body, first, have a fixed agenda to diffuse to the community. Set the time to visit each village community in the area pemilihannya. There, together with the community, can solve problems with more concrete.

Second, in the visit, plans to create a realistic development of the region and in the community. Not only berkutat on matters theoretical. Moreover, plans that will hit later in the bureaucratic problems that are not effective.

Third, although already allocated, the members of the legislative body want to help directly in the area when pemilihannya, natural disaster, many of the poor, disease plague-stricken, many children who are not able to attend school, for example. By doing so, members of the legislative body will not be considered to forget konstituennya.

However, as the Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), "Politics is not an exact science" (Politics is not mathematics). That is, what happens now, what is promised, what was planned, could be changed due to political science is not definitive. Berharaplah politicians that we will be changed to the better, do not forget the people, not sell out and trust, not undermine the state money, and not berkolusi evil.