Stube-HEMAT Bengkulu initiated a discussion forum with a theme Democracy from Age to Age in Taba Gemantung village, Central Bengkulu Regency (25/10/2021). The speaker was Stube HEMAT Bengkulu activist, Reginiana Dosvia. This forum sparked participants to pay attention to the democratic life that has occurred until now. Democracy itself means a form of government where all citizens have equal rights to make a decision that can change their lives.
The material provided makes the participants learn about political changes, especially during the development of digital technology. They are expected to promote democracy in their daily activities and observe existing democratic problems. More importantly, they learned about democratic practices in their region and other areas in general throughout Indonesia.
With these expected goals, the activity of Stube invited the participants to take an active role in Democracy activities in their area even on a wider scale. Democratic activities cannot be separated from our daily lives when expressing opinions or elections are carried out in a group. Even the democracy occurred within the family, schools, offices, villages, and even the state, democratic activities are practiced. These showed that democracy has an important role.
Based on the material quoted from the official website of the Ministry and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, essentially the characteristics of a democratic country are equality before the law, participation in decision-making, fair distribution of income, and freedom of responsibility.
Then,
the resource person invited the participants to discuss the function of
democracy. From the discussion, it was concluded that democracy can help an
election run fairly and create a sense of unity if the democratic process may
run properly by providing protection of everyone’s rights to run a democracy,
creating a culture that guarantees people's rights can be served well. The
question and answer session went well lively. The speaker then encouraged the
participants to actively take a role in democratic activities and dare to be a
leader.
One
of the participants named Zeta gave her view that democracy can work in harmony
if the practice is carried out fairly, namely prioritizing the rights of
everyone, regardless of social status and position. When democracy is not
implemented properly, then the guarantee of human rights will be unfair.
Besides defining democracy, the resource person also asked what kind of democratic practice the participants had done. They already knew and implemented the class leader elections and village head elections in their areas. On a large scale, they took part to vote the representatives' house members. ***
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