SUHARTO'S RULE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF NEO DARWINIST BIOPOLITICS FOR THE PERIOD 1965-1971
Firdaus Syam ,Seta Basri
Keywords:
Biopolitics, Neo Darwinists, Suharto, Domination, Submission, Power ,
Abstract
This article seeks to prove that the Neo Darwinist Biopolitical perspective can be used to analyze Suharto's rule in the period 1965-1971. The methodology used is qualitative in the form of a literature study which is used to support a new theoretical explanation of a phenomenon under study. The data used is taken through various books, journals, documents, newspaper news, both available offline and online. Researchers assume that various secondary data on Suharto's rule in the research period are available quite a lot. In order to explain Suharto's power using the Neo Darwinist Biopolitical theory, the researcher asked three research questions. First, how Suharto built power between 1965 and 1968 is associated with the concept of bonding, coalition formation, and dyadic hierarchy. Second, how Suharto's efforts to dominate national politics are associated with the concept of reproducing power in complex hierarchies, and inclusive fitness mechanisms. Third, why Suharto's asymmetrical dominance of the various political hierarchies that existed allowed him to create a political obedience that allowed the 1971 elections to support his power to ensure the predictability of the species. The novelty of the article is that in developing his power, Suharto was different from Sukarno, who in the biopolitical point of view, Suharto tended to absorb (absorb) the various complex hierarchies that existed into his power while Sukarno tended to centralize power with the focus was to defeat the political forces that opposed him frontally. Another finding is that the authoritarianism developed by Suharto was an automatic choice (default option) and caused the state to avoid anarchy due to the continuous competition between political forces such as the Sukarno era