Legal Literacy - Recently, the public has witnessed many universities initiating joint statements (petitions). Joint statements containing criticism and concern that are sweeping the Indonesian state. Academics consisting of lecturers and students called for disagreement and deep sadness over the behavior and political choices that have been carried out by President Joko Widodo. Disappointment came when the figure or political figure who was originally known as a mainstay political figure is now just a memory.

Academics' Petition Part of Political Orchestration Electoral?

Jokowi was showered and flooded with criticism and responses that considered him to have no ethics. Ethics are considered the main point of the points of the statement made. This condition reflects that democracy has been tried to be expressed in the willingness to think and act democratically. Democracy has taught the Indonesian people to live appropriately in realizing their politics. So, is every argument or statement made by academics part of a political orchestration electoral with a specific purpose?

Campus agendas that can be fairly assessed as independent and responsible cannot necessarily be considered part of political intrigue. Every statement that is managed and formulated in the joint statement has been sufficiently believed to be based on tested expertise or scientific explanations. But is that sufficient belief also sufficient to be understood as a rooting of democracy that is trying to be revived so that it can grow and continue to develop?

The many initiatives that have emerged must of course be appreciated and respected. Every inch of statement or argument revealed in the petition is ammunition for the public to be made aware of but not to be argued over. The main problem limit of the 2024 election implementation process is not limited to Jokowi. The aggregate of community interests from all over the country is the main capital to continue to fight for. Petitions should not only reprimand Jokowi, more than that, invite every member of society to continue to oversee and maintain the dignity of democracy towards its adulthood.

The democracy that developed during the reformation should not target tendentious criticism dominated by certain figures. The question is whether the political situation in Indonesia is only about certain figures or figures? What about the ideas of these figures, including the commitment of these figures? The public must not only see the surface that appears, the public must also be invited to realize and accept the consequences of the various appearances that have not yet appeared.