Negara Barat dan Islam: Perspektif Tentang Demokrasi

Abstract

Democracy is a form or mechanism of a countrys government system as an effort to realize the sovereignty of the people (citizen power) over the state to be run by the state government. Democracy is a form or mechanism of a countrys government system as an effort to realize the sovereignty of the people (citizen power) over the state to be run by the government of that country. One of the pillars of democracy is the principle of trias politica which divides the three political powers of the state (executive, judicial and legislative) to be manifested in three types of independent state institutions and are ranked parallel to one another. Alignment and independence of these three types of state institutions are required so that these three state institutions can supervise and control each other on the basis of checks and balances.