For those of you who like a trip to various places and regions, prepare your journey will start to interfere. At least you'll be distracted by the hustle and bustle of the campaign, various types of billboard, banner campaigns, ads, up leaflets which would reduce the panoramic beauty of nature during our journey. Elections in various regions began to bloom implemented. And, it may take up to two or three years into the future.
As usual in the election season, poverty and kedhuafaan, suddenly going to be a theme that we often hear. The candidates competing themes of poverty, and began mematut themselves into people who care about the lives of ordinary people. No wonder, if in a city, we will find a giant billboard, with pictures of a candidate regents shouldering a hoe, carrying a scythe, standing at the edge of the humble puddle rice fields. He mematut themselves into the figure of the leader, who will defend the farmers.
Elsewhere, the region scavengers, and the market became a favorite place disambangi slum candidates. The candidate, do not hesitate to spread saweran sympathetic, asked this and that, memorize the prices chili, and daily necessities. In a day imaged himself as the candidate who is close to people's lives and economic realities. All candidates for the leader when it hopes to legitimacy as a leader who cares about the little guy, and close to the periphery.
Portrait of the periphery. Like in the song Franky Sahilatua, is that they spread on the sidewalk, at the terminal and crowded city bus. They picked up bread from the market hall, the terminal up to a pile of garbage. They are also scattered in hamlets and rural poor. In the rice paddies barren patch of their lives to earn a livelihood.
People like their suburbs, turning the economy without access to much less capital support facility. They continue to be poor papa, because indeed there was never a serious leader who raised the dignity of their lives. They, those suburbs, often dielukan in the party elections, but also often left behind after the power terengkuh leaders. Yet from among the candidates they vote to legitimize the pan leaders win as leader.
The elections is a pretext to find a leader. Some of us will surely follow. Apart from saturation, like it or not involved in the process of the event, the election is the moment of choosing leaders. We will face the choice of how we should elect a leader. No religion teaches us our duty to elect a leader among us. As word of the Apostle of Allah.: "Not allowed three people who were in the wilderness area but if they picked one of them as leaders." (Ahmad).
We have the opportunity and authority to select, even chose a leader who meets the requirements of leadership as taught our religion. But the problem that often occurs is that we hardly find a leader who we expect, even more often we choose leaders who are not only oblivious to our message, but had not really want to know the tasks and mandate that he hopes the waistband of your selection.
But we all should not lose hope, our minimum obligation is to seek and choose the best according to our conscience. It is not possible someday we find, and appointed a leader who truly became caliph for all of us. Hopefully we can sort out which of our leaders are truly on the outskirts of polite, and where a leader who makes the suburbs as a foothold grabbed power. God willing, good leaders will we get. Amiin.
*) Kusnandar is Director of Strategic Service Dhuafa Wallet.
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translated by: Budi R. Sidik
