Democracy Has Bad Aspects Too

            Democracy is the root of many things in the government system in the majority of countries. Transparency, pers and justice are the main idea of democracy. Human Rights are the most important thing which is the reason why Indonesia imposes democratic government system.  Because of our country is an independent county, we have the freedom of expression. However when we do something, we have to care about other people’s rights, that is how the ideal democracy happen. Not all of Indonesian citizens know the ideal democracy. Sometimes, people misuse their rights by being too free. Sometimes they overlooked their rights and the only one way they use to magnify their rights is by taking it from other’s.

            Democracy has bad aspects too, too much of a good thing can be bad. Too` much freedom can destroy a country. Every good thing has bad side of it, nothing is perfect unless you live in a dead society. As we see in the newspapper, so many demonstration with anarchism can turn into violence. That’s a bad thing which can’t be tolerated. Our country will be so miserable because of over democration. Things have happened so terrible, our mentality has been brainwashed by false idea of democracy. We know so many citizen organization which are radicals, militant and virgilent. They kill other’s freedom furthermore, they assault the government and the president without any guilt because democracy teach us about freedom of expression.

 It’s pathetic that most people value democracy more than they value ideology. The truth is ideology is the national principle of a couuntry. We should value it more than we value democracy. Democracy can make people casually protest to the government and misuse laws to break people down. For example is the laws about blasphemy. People who don’t like someone and then the hated person speak something a little offensive about a religion, they will find so many ways to bring that person to the jail, the reason is democracy and citizen sovereignty. Actually, it is okay to give our opinion about other religion because democracy is about freedom of expression. Ironically, so many people think that it is illegal even they do it even more severe. For majority of people, they will mostly be safe. They can protest even the smallest problem to the president. However, for minority, it is very hard to get our rights, sometimes. That is because of unfair democracy, democracy which only applied to some people, they are too free so they violate other’s rights.

            However, not all about democracy is bad. Democracy has so many profitable effects. We live in democratic era which can fulfill our needs, unlike the traditional kingdom era. In the past, our country was kingdoms, when the king was the one that had the sovereignty so the citizen could not protest about anything which the king did. Now our country applies presidential government which is more fair than kingdoms. Democracy is also about citizen sovereignty, we are free to give our opinions about the policies, as long as we responsible by our opinion. From citizens, by citizens and for citizens, that is the real meaning of democracy. Civil society can be realized by democracy. Civil society is something that we desire to happen.

            Democracy helps a country to find its identity. Every country is different, because every country has its own identity. Democracy helps everyone to develop their tallents by giving them a chance to express themselves. They can feel free to share their opinions to the government so the government can fulfill their needs. The government will not feel so confused about what are the majority of people need. Demonstration if done right, can be a good things to organize so many aspects in our country. If people be aware about the real democracy and the balance of rights and obligations, our country will be a good country. Our country is country with so many good things inside, the problem is how we be aware of that.

            From the above, we can conclude that democracy can either be bad or good. It depens on how we see it in a point of view. Democracy has both good and bad aspect. Everthing has both good and bad effects, nothing is prefect. There are so many good and there are so many bad things about democracy. We are people, we live in the society where we learn about social norms and social values that sometimes we don’t act like we should. Even a good attitude has bad effects to, we will feel so burdened sometimes by doing the right thing. That is what democracy like. Democracy can guide our country to develop social aspects like freedom of expression. Democracy can make us more creative. However, democracy can make a war. Democracy can destroy our country because of people have been so egoistic about their rights. That is democracy.