DEMOKRATISASI PARTAI DAN DILEMA SISTEM KEPARTAIAN DI INDONESIA

Politicalparties are integralpart o f process of democratization in Indonesia. But, rather be the solution of the problem in democratization o f the country, Indonesian political parties are still part of the problem. The paper is aim to identify problem o f the parties in Indonesia and the party system. The paper describes that the parties have at leastfour shortcomings as its basicproblem, i.e. institutionalproblem, leadershipproblem, structural problem and ideological problem. This paper argues that to make political parties become the solution ofpolitical problem in Indonesia, it has to be modernized. In the context of revision o f Decree o f Political Party, the party system has to be fitted in with other system in Indonesian political system. The choice is not only to choose between multi-party or bi-party system, but to choose the system that coherence with the whole political system in Indonesia.