Bukan Oposisi, Melainkan Tagihan yang Tidak Dibayar
Tanggapan ini menolak penggunaan istilah 'oposisi senyap' oleh Teuku Riefky karena perilaku ekonomi seperti investor memindahkan modal atau rumah tangga mengurangi konsumsi hanyalah reaksi atau konsekuensi kebijakan, bukan tindakan sadar menentang pemerintah seperti definisi oposisi menurut Robert Dahl. Penulis juga menolak klaim bahwa mekanisme koreksi hanya berpindah dari voice ke exit dengan merujuk pada Hirschman, yang justru menunjukkan exit tanpa voice membuat sistem tidak mampu mengoreksi diri dan kerusakan terjadi tanpa dipahami pengambil keputusan. Kesimpulannya, data dalam tulisan Riefky sendiri lebih kuat tanpa metafora oposisi, karena realitas ekonomi tidak menghukum pemerintah maupun memiliki preferensi politik.
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- Article responds to Teuku Riefky's opinion piece titled "Oposisi Senyap" published in Kompas on 31 August 2026.
- Riefky is identified as a macroeconomic researcher at LPEM FEB UI.
- Author agrees with most of Riefky's findings but disputes his use of the term "oposisi."
- Robert Dahl defined opposition as requiring actors who deliberately challenge the government.
- Investors, households, and merchants who react economically to policy are not necessarily acting as opposition.
- Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970) argues that exit without voice is a poor corrective mechanism.
- Hirschman argued that monopolists losing critical customers often become more comfortable, not better.
- Between 2009 and 2016, real wage growth and economic growth moved together at 5.6% and 6.3% per year respectively.
- The pattern of real wage growth and economic growth changed after 2016.
- The author argues the strongest argument in Riefky's piece appears where the opposition metaphor is no longer needed.
- Riefky acknowledges in the article that economic reality does not punish the government and has no political preference.
- The author states Hirschman does not support the conclusion that corrective mechanisms merely shift from voice to exit.
- When voice weakens, exit can allow damage to continue without being understood by decision makers.
- The author contends that leaving a system is not the same as correcting it.
Hak cipta dan publikasi utuh dimiliki oleh Kompas.