PEMIKIRAN POLITIK SUTAN SJAHRIR TENTANG REVOLUSI

Maulana, Eko

JRP (Jurnal Review Politik)
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2014): June

The article describes SutanSjahrir’s strug­gle for the state and Indonesian people. Sjahrir’s struggle was grounded on democratic revolution and national revolution. The writer has formulated two main questions, are; first, how is the revolution of political parties wished by Sjahrir? Second, how did Sjahrir implement his idea about go­vern­mental revolution? The results of the study show that after Indonesianindepen­dence, Sjahrir promulgated what so-called revolution of the political parties. To Sjahrir, the poli­tical parties should be in form of the cadres’ parties, not the masses parties. Fur­ther­more, when dealing with the Indonesian governmental sys­tem, he contended governmental revolution. In this phase, Sjahrir stressed the impor­tance of functioning of the civil service, police, and agrarian officers. He al­so called on the empowerment of workers and peasants through political education as democratic revolutionary for­ces.