Nilai-nilai dan Parameter Demokrasi dalam Kehidupan Masyarakat Bali

Abstract

Balinese culture has a lot of potential values of democracy
which up till now still become the basis in the society’s life. To
explore this potentiality, this study is trying to explain how
the manifestation of the normative democratic values and
the empirical democracy are implemented in society of Bali.
This writing is based on the research which used qualitative
method that covered the collection of primary and secondary
data, theories of analyzing data, analysis and interpretation
of already selected data. Writing and constructing the whole
result of this research were also done in this study.
Based on the result of this research, it was found that the
manifestation of the normative democratic values show that
there were respects for the individual rights, obedience political
fatsoen, the spirit of cooperation, rotation of the autority and
periodical succesion, equality and respect for citizen’rights,
tolerance in dessent, transparency and accountabilty of the
authority holders, and participation in public policy.
Meanwhile, the empirical manifestation of the
democracy which is reflected in many aspects of Balinese life
greatly affects how the describe the concept of democracy as
the basis of the strength and independence of the transition
of the democracy happening nowdays. The application of the
values and the parameter of the democracy also influence the
form and the characteristic of the relation between Balinese
society and the government as part of the institution.