LOCAL POLITICAL CONTESTATION WITH NATIONAL ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DEMOCRARCY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE INI ASEAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

Although there are similarities in the form of democratic institution found in Southeast Asia countries, but the application the form of democracy are different according to different environmental factors, such as social, economic and cultural factors. Some of the influence of these enivironmental factors differe between the notion of democracy as the universal idea found in daily practices with the theory of democracy as a result of long history from the ancient Greek to the modern democratic principle. Therefore, there is a missing link between democratic theory contained in state constitution with the the democrartic practises in local community, The form of representative democracy contained in the Constitution of the State as a form of theory differs from the practice of deliberative democracy on the form of choosing leaders and the decision making process used in local communities. The following article explains the the concept of power in Southeast Asia society that have concrete characteristics, originating form one sources, limited in number, and do not question the aspect of marality of power as a distinct feature from the concept of modern power that is abstract, originating from many sources, unlkimited in number, and dispute in morality of the power. Through the use of the qualitative methods and phenomenological approach, it was found the missing link between the theory of democaracy practiced with the universal ideas of democracy practises in Southeast Asian countries stemmed from differences in the concept of power that differ form traditional concept of power with the modern understanding concept of power