Troubled regional representatives

Troubled regional representatives

It is the regional representatives issue that sparked a fight
during the first day of the Annual Session of the People's
Consultative Assembly (MPR). Those who claimed to be
representatives of the provinces lost their temper because their
wish to form the Regional Representatives Faction (FUD) was
blocked by most legislators.

If we read it carefully, the name "regional representatives"
itself bears a problem. The word "representatives" implies that
they were not elected, but in fact they were. They claim that
they do not represent a political party but they are in fact
backed by political parties.

"Regional representatives" has a conceptual defect. Provinces
which should have been represented by political parties, have
other representatives in the regional domain. Besides, in the
current situation, regional representatives could sow the seeds
of disintegration.

There are more regional representatives than members of the
Reform Faction but the Assembly does not wish to group them into
a faction. If that is the case, it should join other political
party factions, because, in fact, they are also representatives
of political parties.

This is the problem if we debate on a political fact which has
a confusing concept. It seems that Indonesian politics is
enjoying unnecessary complexity.

-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta