Charging position president and vice president in indonesia after constitutional amandement. Comparative analaysis with eight countries
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©Author Syafri Hariansah Publishing 2015 ISBN:
602 – 1087 -73- 9
One of
constitutional issues which need to be reviewed academically in order to get
the academic answer is the issue of filling the positions of president and vice
president of Indonesia. The positions filling can be interpreted theoretically
into two perspectives, first, in a narrow sense the positions filling can be
seen as a process of positions filling if there are merely the vacancy of
president and vice president position. Second, in a broad sense, the positions
filling can be seen as a process or a mechanism which contain stipulation of
the candidate, mechanism of positions filling, term of office, and vacancy of
positions.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is an expansion of the 1993 Foreign Affairs article written by Samuel Huntington that hypothesized a new post-Cold War world order. Prior to the end of the Cold War, societies were divided by ideological differences, such as the struggle between democracy and communism. Huntington's main thesis argues, "The most important distinctions among peoples are [no longer] ideological, political, or economic. They are cultural" (21). New patterns of conflict will occur along the boundaries of different cultures and patterns of cohesion will be found within the cultural boundaries.
Part One: A World of Civilizations
To begin his argument, Huntington refutes past paradigms that have
been ineffective in explaining or predicting the reality of the global
political order. "We need a map," Huntington says, "that both
portrays reality and simplifies reality in a way that best serves our
purposes" (31). Huntington develops a new "Civilization
paradigm" to create a new understanding of the post-Cold War order, and to
fill the gaps of the already existing paradigms. To begin with, Huntington
divides the world into eight "major" civilizations:
