Sabtu, 03 Maret 2018
Knowing The Election Candidates Informations
Election is a means for the people to be able to convey their aspirations by choosing the candidates for the people's representatives, the election is a manifestation of the democratic system that established by the state that uses it, no exception in Indonesia which is a country that also embraces the system of democratic government. As a voter, every individual person must have the choice of candidates, but some of us choose the candidates without knowing exactly about the candidate or it party bearer. Of course it is less good, because if we choose a candidate without knowing it first we will make mistakes if the candidate is not in accordance with what we expect. Then, to prevent it, we can do one of the ways, the way is finding out the informations about the candidates of the election. By finding out some information about the candidates for the election, we will definitely know about how the candidates are. So, in this paragraphs will explain what we need to know about the candidates for the election and what is the importance of knowing that for us as the prospective voters.
First is by recognize the candidates, before choosing, we as the voters need to know about the background history or biography of the candidates. The candidate's biography may contain about their educational background, work, activities in the community and in daily life with the community. Through the introduction of the curriculum vitae of candidates and political parties, we as voters have at least the basic descriptions and information about them, so that when we make a choice we can consider the good and bad things the candidate has, because it is very likely that the elected candidate's life background is not in line with our expectations.
Furthermore is by knowing their vision, the vision is contains a sentence that becomes a dream for the candidate to be achieved when they elected. Vision must be contain several of characteristics such as; can be imagined, interesting, realistic, achievable, clear, aspirational, responsive to change and easy to understand. By knowing the vision of the candidate's representative, we will know what they will accomplish if they are elected. Then is knowing the candidate's mission, basically mission is a basic reason of existence of vision, mission has strategic position, because it must be able to translate vision and technically have to be able to apply it into the programs which they will do. We as voters have to look at the missions of the candidates, because the mission is the first step towards the programs that can be easily observed.
The last is about their programs, the programs is the technical translations of the vision and mission that offered by the candidates to us the voters. Usually, the candidates package the programs so well, so it looks perfect and also promises a better-impressed future for us. Thus, we as voters must be smart and careful in assessing the programs that offered by candidates, we must be able to assess whether the programs are realistic and in accordance with the capabilities of the candidates.
There may be many people who say that it is useless to know everything that concerns about the candidates that we will choose, for example in the life background history of the candidates, they may cheat by lying about their life history, then the candidates vision and mission are also limited to the promise and they will not make it happen when they are elected, and they deny all promises that they expressed during the campaign, if the vision and mission are fake, of course, in the implementation of the programes will cause disappointment for us as the voters. However, that is not entirely true, because there are many candidates who are honest, they include their actual life history, then realize the vision and mission they expressed during the campaign, and then the results of the program have a positive impact on our progress.
In conclusion, by knowing all the details about the candidates, of course we will be easier to consider who we will choose, so then we are no longer confused again in choosing the candidates who will probably change our future. Many people may say it is useless, but by knowing about the candidates information, you will become a careful and intellegent voter in choosing a candidate in every elections.
Name : Ilham Maulana Firdaus
NIM. : 1630911024
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