Quality of political parties' members

Quality of political parties' members

Indonesia's terrible human resources development has made it
difficult for political parties to select legislative candidates.

One of this nation's major problems is its poor human
resources development, leaving it unable to compete with other
nations.

Our people's inability to compete with people from other
nations can be attributed to many different reasons, but the
country's educational system is mostly to be blamed for having
failed to produce creative and independent people who are able to
think logically.

Even when the educational system does manage to create quality
people, once these people leave school they are immersed in
social values that respect materialism more than noble deeds.

Materialistic people, even if they are well-educated, tend to
take shortcuts in order to amass great fortunes for themselves.

As such, members of the political elite are vying to form
political parties without taking heed of the social investment in
human resources development.

Political parties are generally formed without any awareness
that they actually need quality people to serve the nation.

As a result, most of these parties take shortcuts and act
arbitrarily in presenting legislative candidates who fail to meet
administrative and legal requirements.

Monday is the final day for political parties to submit their
lists of legislative candidates to the General Elections
Commission (KPU), which will then announce the parties' final
candidates.

Political parties have a big problem as recruiting good
candidates cannot be done in the twinkling of an eye.

Indeed, the future of political parties can be determined by
the quality of their members. However, the parties continue to
talk instead of taking giant steps to enhance the quality of
their members. -- Media Indonesia, Jakarta