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Dimana-mana orang berantem tentang pilihan presidennya. Bahannya beragam, dari masalah track record, kepribadian, kejiwaan, janji-janji sampai bayangan orang-orang yang berdebat tersebut tentang jagonya. Bahkan ada pula yang membuat joke, kartun, komik, meme untuk mendukung jagoannya dan menjatuhkan lawannya. Tak hanya di sarana pribadi, sosial media, bahkan media pun ikut berseteru menyorong-sorongkan sang jago untuk di pilih.  Melihat hal ini, ada sedikit rasa risih,  Indonesia seperti sudah mau perang saja, tapi dalam pikiran yang lebih dalam saya bangga.  Indonesia telah makin dewasa. Semua hal ini menunjukkan adanya dinamika pemikiran, ada api persaingan memperjuangkan ide, ada nyawa kehidupan bernegara. Terus terang, saya menikmati pertarungan sebulan belakangan ini.  Yang jadi keresahan saya adalah, setelah musim kampanye ini berlalu, selanjutnya apa? Apakah akan berakhir seperti piala dunia, pesta kemenangan semalam suntuk karena jagonya juara ( padahal bukan siapa-siapanya) la

In his  Side Note article (Catatan Pinggir) in Tempo Magazine March 31st, 2014, Goenawan Moehammad made an euphemism for those who do not vote (golput) as Bartleby. He took it from Herman Merville, Bartleby the Scrivener. He made an opening premise for his note that those who do not vote, as those who refuse but do not really refuse. Taking the story to make his point further, GM explore the absurdity of refusing but not really refuse by taking his opinion and comments on the story. Reading the whole article, in my opinion, Goenawan is trying to make a phylosophical discourse on absurdity of being the white group (golput). I do not mind of his discourse and even partly agree with his discussion that Bartleby is complicated. However, I do not agree with his early concluding premise that refusing by not refusing is golput. Golput is not always, "I would like to but I prefer not to". For me it is I refuse to because it is not what how I want it to be. The distinction is immin