Antara Anarki dan Demokrasi: Masalah Kekerasan Politik di Indonesia

Cornelis Lay (Universitas Gadjah Mada)

Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik
Vol 3, No 3 (2000): MARET (Kekerasan, Keberdayaan, dan Demokrasi)

A critical analysis of how the New Order state has established its power basis and how the power has been utilised and abused leads us to conclude that anarchy is a rational response to the state's actions. Democracy, as a non-violent scheme of conflict management, is hampered by the formation of consolidated anarchy. Democratization leaves us with an agenda for mollifying violent.