Fadillah Nurpriyanto A1B215039 - Argumentative Essay

           The existence of artists in Indonesia is very entertaining for society. Even, every artist always has thousand or maybe million  fans and big fans spread over an area. By this condition, the popularity of artists were highlighted by political parties in Indonesia to join in legislative election. Each political party is competing to get vote as much as possible in order to get seat in Senayan using artist popularity. In other word, if a party has many cadres who sit in Senayan, it will increase the electability of the party in the presidential election. Therefore, celebrity politics phenomena should be avoided because it can lead us to inanimate political condition.

            Firstly, celebrity is just as a vote getter for political party to grab a seat in legislative election. In this decade, celebrity politics phenomena increasingly widespread. The function of artists are not only as entertainer, but also as a regulator for society. Using the popularity of artists are the easiest way for political parties to find more seat in legislative election because political parties will not spend much cost to promote their candidate. Clearly, this celebrity politics phenomena is instant way that political parties had done to get power.

            Secondly, the quality, capability, intellectual, experience of legeslative candidate become unimportant. The fact is political situation in Indonesia last ten years has shifted.  The essence of politic as room together to build a good society shifted as private room. Meanwhile, political parties as political actors also shifted the function. At first, political parties are media for society’s aspiration, nowdays changes into industrial power by personal individual to get private room. One of the shifting is celebrity who bound by political parties to get power in parliament. Unfortunatelly, the political parties don’t care whether their candidates have good quality, morality or not but the most important is private room.

            In short, there are many reasons that celebrity politics can led us to inanimate political condition. Celebrity politics is a symbol of lack of good recruitment process by parties in Indonesia. To build a conducive political condition , the essence of politic and the function of politics parties must be true. All forms of political deviation such us celebrity politics to boost vote must be solved wisely by good caderizazion process.