By: Dominggus Elcid Li

Amien Rais statement that the public needs to oversee the eradication of the mafia in Indonesia is not excessive (Kompas.com, 6/11/2009).

Although the word mafia is still just a fantasy in the film understood Father God, and not to mention a daily reality. In fact, how can we distinguish the direction of Vito Corleone's assassination and the death of Nasrudin Zulkarnaen?

Vulgar spectacle antihukum practice lately simply move the events behind the scenes to the screen. Original media workers only "highlights" of what has been experienced by citizens become "public knowledge / shared".

Became angry and protested the initial reaction is usually respond to "recognition" of the parties involved. However, good intentions are not enough in the fight against criminal networks.

The word "mafia", originally pointed to a kind of Italian criminal organization Cosa Nostra and Ndarangheta. However, the word is now commonly used for all organizations and organized crime run by "internal rules" strict, for example, Red Mafia (Russia), Triad (China), and the Yakuza (Japanese). The literature on mafia Indonesia itself has yet been found, and the word mafia is still commonly used than "modality". In fact, the effect of the state mafia network is clearly visible.

Offering Protection

According Gambeta Diego (1993), the state and the mafia offer the same thing, namely protection. Citizens are assumed to be protected from paying taxes because the state apparatus, while the mafia sells special protection to their clients. The practice became problematic, as the trade mafia things that are illegal according to state rules.

The issue of legal and illegal is blurred boundary in the market mafia. Protect the violators of law is a commodity trading in mafia networks.

Ironically, in a state of anarchy, the protection offered by the mafia more reasonable in the eyes of entrepreneurs as compared to the state. Therefore, the tax to the state tend to be no trace of the state apparatus as well as trade in services that should be accepted as a consequence of paying taxes.

Dismantling Mafia

Dismantle mafia networks is definitely not easy. In Sicily, Italy, Diego Gambeta in investigations of mafia networks are only able to analyze the mafia practices based on interviews with market traders of fruits, chain bottom of this network, because it lives at stake. In Indonesia, this fact was making a spectacle of everyday.

Mafia in Italian politics can be read in Silvio Berlusconi scandal. The number one Italian even this can not be considered clean. Prime Minister Berlusconi, who controls three Italian media networks, new media can be touched after the network's media magnate Rupert Murdoch opened. The conflict between the two networks oligarchy is the trigger opening scandals Berlusconi. Since October 2009, the impunity that Berlusconi revoked his financial scandal could be investigated.

In Indonesia, without understanding the motion of the mafia and its relation to the state, the business opened a criminal case is like eliminating a cancer cell. State apparatus that has dominated mafia networks have committed a crime against citizens.

Anarchy and "ochlocracy"

State crisis occurred after the head of state and cabinet inaugurated. We are still in the fantasy world of democracy and drunken praise as one of the many countries with the densest population who run democracy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau called democracy is perverted as ochlocracy (1973: 234), or the practice of "crowd". This part of the condition of anarchy which is characterized by pupusnya country. In Indonesia, this appears to waning legitimacy of the apparatus.

If Rousseau mentions only "crowd", mafia networks that move in a situation of anarchy rather than the crowd. Organized criminal networks that operate in the cell structure of the neat cross-institution.

How can the country survive the mafia has not yet been answered. This is at once answered the question why the network can be answered the mafia Indonesia Indonesia Facebookers. Simply because both operate in a symmetric network system. The question, whether the network that exists on the internet antimafia can be operated in reality?

Presenting the solidarity between residents as a fact not easy. In 1998, Indonesia failed network of citizens working together. Political reform era Indonesia is no different if read carefully the era dogfights in the political history of the PRC.

Out of the situation is a must if a situation of anarchy to be exceeded and the development of the country done. So no longer the same as in 1949 that Anwar was written in a "burst of fir-patter" through his poetry, life is only to delay defeat. Already 64 years we are "stateless" and people's sovereignty is still a fantasy, while the Mafia became a reality. This is a tragedy to declare defeat repeated.

Dominggus Elcid LiCo-editor of Journal of Academia NTT; Members of the Brotherhood Indonesia; PhD student Department of Sociology University of Birmingham, UK
This paper has been published in Kompas , on Friday, November 13, 2009.