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refugee. Since 2012, Australia sent the refugees who came by boats to the camp in
Nauru, an reported that there were attacks and systematic violation toward to refugees.
Other than that, there is also camp in Manus Island in Papua New Guinea where Australia
built refugee camps in this island. Papua New Guinea government stated that the refugees
were hold in these controvertial camps and will be settled in this island. Despite of the
under spotlighttreatment regarding Australia’s action towards the refugees in this island,
the refugees were forbidden to enter the Australian territory regardless their status as
refugees.
Since the camp was opened in Manus island under the instruction of Labor Party
three years ago, about 50 of asylum seekers were accepted. And based on the immigration
data, more than 900 men were hold in Manus island, and about 600 men, women, and
children wer hold in Nauru. The people in Manus island were placed, accomodated,
and funded by the Australian government, but were not permitted to work and leave the
island.
Since the processing camp in Manus Islands has been opened by Australian Labor
Party 3 years ago, there have been reported around 50 asylum seekers whose applications
are accepted. However, there are more than 900 men under detention in Mnaus Islands,
600 men, women, and children are under detention in Nauru. Those under detention
in Manus get inancial support from Australia despite the regulation for not being able to
work. They may leave the home but remain staying at this island.
Thus, what would be the lesson learned? Indeed, border area is not only about
interests representation of two neighborhood states. There may have been external actors
involved within. Not only Europe who get the impacts of Turkey’s opening border policy, but
also Oman, Quwait, and Qatar.
Australia relies heavily on the border security system in all parts of Indonesian
in dealing with refugee problems and its negative impacts to their nations.
Australia also needs Papua New Guinea in order to provide a shelter to those
refugees who want to migrate to Australia. Then, we could say that border area
is a common space for intra states, not only between states. It needs a careful attention,
support, and cooperation from many states surrounding the border zones. Therefore,
border diplomacy needs to be conducted not only through bilateral effort but also
multilateral effort.
There is no other reason for the local government and the other governments to
avoid dealing with development in that area. Government are obliged to develop the area
under a cooperative framework between two states, and even in the intra state.
In the future, if the bilateral cooperation in the border area could run smoothly, it
could therefore be adopted into multilateral cooperation especially to the states who have
border problem in regional level.
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BUSINESSPEOPLE CO-OPTATION IN CHINA’S COMMUNIST PARTY ADAPTION
Fidya Shabrina and Atik Septi Winarsih
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Universitas Gadjah Mada
Univesitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
Abstract:
The co-optation of businesspeople is an interesting phenomenon in the Chinese Communist Party’s CCP institutionalization. Involvement of the rich and wealthy not only contradicts the party’s ideology
of egalitarianism but is also strictly prohibited due to the Tiananmen incident in 1989. However, because of the massive development of Chinese social and economical landscape, businesspeople emerge
as an important social base of civil society. They possess abundant economical resource and hold an important role in the Chinese society as capital owner. The CCP is aware of this situation and therefore
attempt to involve businesspeople in political process through co-optation. The CCP implements co- optation to involve businesspeople in political process. The co-optation was recognized since the 16th
National Party Congress in 2002, during the Jiang Zemin administration. As China’s economic and political setting become more complex, ideology alone is not enough to sustain the CCP’s power. A
new structurized mechanism was required to guarantee that it remains as a legitimate ruler. The co- optation is considered as an attempt of the CCP to assure regime’s survival as well as to strengthen its
legitimacy. The article will discuss how and why the CCP co-opts businesspeople into the party.
Keywords: co-optation, Chinese Communist Party, businessman, legitimacy.
CHINA’S ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION AND INTERNAL PARTY DYNAMIC
CCP’s organizational complexity is an interesting phenomenon. Since 1949 until
now, CCP is the ruling party of China. In 2015, CCP members are noted to be more than 85
million ar around 6 of China’s population Communist Party of China, 2013
. As a party governing more than 1,3 trillion citizens, CCP
is required to continuously renew its supporting basis. The socioeconomic complexity in
contemporary China demands continuous regime adaptation for survival. Under the role
of Mao, party cadres mostly consist farmers and labors. Nowadays, CCP’s membership
has expanded into various profession: labors, farmers, government oficials, service
providers, merchants, students, retiree, etc. Number of party cadres from trading and
service sector is noted to be the second highest; 23,3 from total party members.
This number exceeds the number of party cadres that works as labors, that is 8,5 from
total party members see diagram 2.
As the party composition turns more heterogenic, ideology basis alone is not
suficient to guarantee the party’s legitimacy. A structured mechanism is required to sustain
the party role. Institutionalization becomes CCP’s main agenda to remain as a ruling
party. To avoid power opposition, CCP builds corporate connection between the state
and the private sector through involving businesspeople.
If we take a look at the history of CCP since its establishment in 1921,
businesspeople is not a signiicant component in party’s institutionalization. According to
Mao Zedong, capitalisme is a crime; those “capitalist walkers” ought to be put away
for good. During the rule of Mao, CCP’s leadership is very centralized; Mao is a very
domineering leader. His words is considered as law and those opposing it will be given
consequences.
During Deng’s leadership, China underwent massive economic growth. The
private sector in China grows very rapidly during these times. The rapid economic
growth brought implication on CCP’s member