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a coup during a state in emergency. D. Dictator also born to cover the governments inability manage nation to tackle corruption, social turmoil, financial hardship, and
because of reduced the confidence of people against to authority and government institutions. E. Several of the dictatorships claim themselves did the will of god.
F. Dictator also appears from a chaos of the country. The chaos caused by war or military crisis that ca
n’t be solved by military force in a war. G. Dictatorships also appear because the country wants to make massive changes. H. Dictator also can be
created to deal with the reformers, revolutionaries and rebels. In Encyclopedia 2004: 353.
2.5 Characteristic of Dictatorship
Soehino in Ilmu Negara 1980: 35 said In a dictatorship system all activity of citizens were bound by ruler of dictator, so all of activities citizens is only praise
the dictator. The characteristics of dictatorship system are:
There is no accountability of its power. People do not have authority to limit the power of a dictator.
Sovereignty belonged to the dictator and used for their benefit. Public support was obtained through propaganda and education system
controlled by dictator. History in the past was replaced.
There is only one ruling party and have special characteristics, there are: o
Set aside the opposition.
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Reign with a cruel. o
Enter a rebellion into prison and camps. o
Establish secret police. o
Doing indoctrination to public. o
Doing strictly supervise to society. The characteristics of the Dictator country by Carl J. Frederick and Z. Bigriewle
Brezinksky in Jurnal Ilmu Politik 1993: 40, is:
1. An existence ideology was taught thoroughly to all society that consist of the doctrine did by government covering all the aspects vital of life and society. All of
people should be obey to it. This ideology was created to make new people era who different with human that now exist in society.
2. Party led by a dictator with members consist of a relatively small percentage of the public population, which are consist of men and women. Throughout his life devote
accept to the party’s ideology and doing any way to accepted by public. 3. A government has terror system, both psychological terror and physical terror. It
was done by the ruling party. Government also has the special police surveillance directed against the enemies of dictator, rebels and to the class of population that
does not agree with government. Terror had been done by secret police or by the ruling party to oppress citizens systematically using by modern science.
Abu Daud Busroh in Hukum Tata Negara, Perbandingan 1987: 67 mentions the characteristics of dictatorship are:
1. The existence of a special court to judge people who oppose the regime. In fact, there is no judicial process for the guilty
2. There is no freedom to association and assembly. 3. There is no general election.
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who have absolute power and their power have not limitation even though by law.
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Design
