Legal Literacy - Indonesian politics, as an arena for contesting various interests, seems to be showing an increasingly bleak face, even though it is polished with a cheerful and encouraging image on the mass media veranda.

The phenomenon of pork barrel politics or familiarly referred to as pork barrel politics, is one of the issues that is currently being discussed by a number of groups in the midst of political corruption that is increasingly eroding the pillars of democracy in this country.

In our current context, pork barrel politics is associated as a form of misuse of the distribution of state funds which is carried out selectively towards a number of areas that are considered strategic in gaining support from constituents.

This strategy has become one of the ultimate weapons for politicians to maintain the leadership position they have mastered, but at the same time, this method obscures the face of democracy which ideally should be based on the principles of justice and transparency.

This is the paradox that has occurred in our political system over the past five years: in the midst of claims and glorification of the ideals of reform, corrupt practices still grip, and are even increasingly organized in a complete manner.

In Indonesia, the phenomenon of pork barrel has become part of a political culture that is difficult to refute. In almost every…