The Function of Pancasila as an Ideology: Its Nature, Its Position

The essence of Pancasila

Talking about nature means talking about things that are essential or basic. Likewise, efforts to understand the nature of Pancasila in the life of the nation and state, because Pancasila has the breadth of philosophical meaning, then from the two main meanings it can be given various meanings, including as follows: following:

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• Pancasila as the basis of the State

Pancasila was not born suddenly in 1945, but rather a long process which is based on the history of the struggle of the Indonesian people and the experience of other nations. The position of Pancasila as the basis of the State, as stated in the preamble to the 1945 Constitution, is the source of the highest legal order that regulates the life of the State and Public.

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• Pancasila as a way of life

The main function of Pancasila as a way of life for the Indonesian people is as a guide to life, guidelines for life, and guidance direction for all activities of life and livelihood of the Indonesian people in various aspects of community and nation life Indonesia.

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• Pancasila as the personality of the Indonesian nation

Personality, which means a description of the attitudes and behavior, or deeds of human beings, which is unique which distinguishes it from other nations. The characteristics of the personality of the Indonesian nation are reflected in the precepts of Pancasila, namely that the Indonesian nation is a nation that:

1. Almighty God
2. Fair and civilized humanity
3. Spirit of unity and national unity
4. Have the spirit of deliberation to reach consensus to achieve wisdom
5. Aspires to realize social justice for all Indonesian people

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• Pancasila as the noble covenant of the Indonesian nation

The term '"Pancasila as the noble agreement of the Indonesian nation"'' This appeared in President Soekarno's State of the Union speech in front of the Gotong Royong People's Representative Council (DPR-GR) on August 16, 1967. Pancasila is declared as a noble agreement for all Indonesian people.

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• Pancasila as the ideals and goals of the Indonesian nation

For more details, the description of Pancasila as the ideals and goals of the Indonesian nation will be seen in the details and objectives of the Indonesian nation and State in the fourth paragraph of the opening of the 1945 Constitution, namely;

1. Protect all Indonesian people and all Indonesian bloodshed
2. Promote the general welfare
3. Enrich the life of a nation
4. Participate in carrying out world order based on freedom, eternal peace and social justice.

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Functions of Pancasila

Pancasila as the basis of the State:

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• As the basis of the State

 Pancasila is domiciled as the basic norm or fundamental norm of the State, thus Pancasila occupies the highest legal norm in the Indonesian ideological state. Pancasila is a legal ideal (staatside) both written and unwritten law (convention).

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• As the source of all sources of law

Pancasila is a fundamental rule of the state, meaning that it has the highest position, therefore Pancasila is also the ideal basis for the preparation of rules in Indonesia. Therefore, all laws and regulations both centrally and regionally do not deviate from the values ​​of Pancasila or must be sourced from the values ​​of Pancasila.

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• As a View of Life

namely the value of Pancasila as a guide and guide in the development of the nation and state so that it remains strong and know the direction in solving political, economic, social and cultural ideological problems as well as defense and security.

1. As the spirit and personality of the Indonesian nation, the values ​​of Pancasila reflect the nation's personality because the basic value is the crystallization of the cultural values ​​of the original Indonesian nation, not taken from other nations.
2. As a noble treaty of the Indonesian nation

 Pancasila was born from the results of the deliberations of the founders of the nation and state (founding fathers) as representatives of the nation, the resulting Pancasila can be morally responsible, sisiocultural. Moral in the sense of not contradicting the prevailing religious values ​​in Indonesia, socio-cultural means a reflection from the cultural values ​​of the Indonesian nation, therefore Pancasila embraces all levels of pluralistic Indonesian society this.

Pancasila as State Ideology:

 The ideology of the state is the ideology of the majority of citizens about the basic values ​​of the state that are to be realized through the life of the state. State ideology is often referred to as political ideology because it is related to the implementation of social and state life which is nothing but political life.
The function of Pancasila as the state ideology, namely:

1. Strengthening national unity because the Indonesian nation is a pluralistic nation.
2. Directing the Indonesian nation towards its goals and mobilizing and guiding
   the Indonesian people in carrying out development.
3. Maintaining and developing national identity and as an encouragement in
   the formation of the nation's character based on Pancasila.
4. Become a standard of value in criticizing the state of the nation and state.

Alfian said that the strength of an ideology depends on the quality of the three dimensions possessed by that ideology, namely the dimensions of reality, idealism, and flexibility.

Pancasila as an ideology has three dimensions:

1. Dimensions of reality, namely the basic values ​​that exist in the ideology that reflect reality or the reality that lives in the society where ideology is born or appears for the first time, at least the basic values ​​of the ideology reflect the reality of society at the beginning of its birth n.
2. The dimension of idealism is the level or quality of the ideology contained in the basic values ​​that are able to give hope to people various groups or groups of people about a better future through experience in the practice of living together daily.
3. Dimensions of Flexibility or dimensions of development, namely the ability of ideology in
   influence and at the same time adapt to the development of society. Influencing means participating in the color development process of the times.

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The nature and characteristics of Pancasila

The nature and characteristics of Pancasila are as follows:

• Systematic (sequence): can not be exchanged order
• Unity of organic totality (whole, singular, compound): cannot be separated from one another

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The Position and Functions of Pancasila

1. Pancasila as the Ideology of the Indonesian Nation:

Ideology comes from the word "Idea" which means ideas, concepts, basic understanding, ideals and logos which means science so Ideology can be interpreted is the science of understanding - basic understanding. Thus Pancasila as the ideology of the nation where in essence Pancasila is the result of reflection or thought of a person or group people like other ideologies in the world, but Pancasila is adopted or taken from the values ​​of customs, culture and religion that there are

in the view of life of the Indonesian people in the nation and state before forming a In other words, Pancasila is a material that is adopted from the people's view of life Indonesia.

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Open Ideology and Closed Ideology

Open ideology is an open system of thought while closed ideology is a closed system of thought. The characteristics of closed ideology:

1. ideology is not an ideal that already exists in society, but the ideal of a group of people that underlies a program to change and renew society. This means that for the sake of ideology the community must make sacrifices to assess their ideological beliefs and loyalty as citizens.
2. The content is not only in the form of certain values ​​and ideals but consists of concrete and hard operational demands.

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Relationship between philosophy and ideology

Philosophy as a view of life is a value system that is believed to be true so that it is used as a basis or guide in viewing reality the universe, humans, society, nation and state, about the meaning of life and as a basis and guide in solving the problems faced. Thus philosophy has become a system of ideals/beliefs that have been praxis because it is used as the basis for the way of life of humans/society, so that philosophy has been transformed into ideology.

While ideology has a philosophical level because it is ideals and norms, and at the same time praxis because it involves operationalization, strategy and doctrine. Ideology also concerns matters that are based on a comprehensive teaching about the meaning and values ​​of life, how humans should behave and act.

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Pancasila as an Open Ideology

Pancasila as an open ideology means that Pancasila is actual, dynamic, anticipatory and always able to adapt to the times. As an open ideology, Pancasila has the following dimensions:

1. The idealistic dimension, namely the basic values ​​contained in the Pancasila which are systematic and rational, namely the nature of the values ​​contained in the five precepts of Pancasila.
2. normative dimension Dimensi, the values ​​contained in Pancasila need to be spelled out in a system of norms, as contained in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution.
3. Realistic dimensions, must be able to reflect the reality that lives and develops in society. Therefore, Pancasila must be described in everyday life so that it is realistic, meaning that it can be translated in real life in various ways

The openness of Pancasila is evidenced by the openness in accepting foreign culture into Indonesia as long as the foreign culture does not violate the values ​​contained in the five precepts of Pancasila. For example, the inclusion of Indian, Islamic, western culture and so on.

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