In The Quest of Democracy

The demos and cratos are two essential words for the essence of democracy. In arbitrary signifiers, it can mean the freedom of speech as governance rules based on people's voices, in every level policy to serves and established citizens' rights and held clean governance. The superstructures rules based on what its citizens want. Whether economic, political, socially, cultural, law, and various terms of rights in equal ways.

But often, what we heard fact in the real-world not as simple as the etymologically means. The grassroots, peoples, citizen's rights are sometimes neglected. There's a way to obtain the needs of higher policymakers. Protest as one of democracy channels in the modern age is a common thing. Ideally, it's unnecessarily to held protest directly on the street and gains masses sympathy if the citizen's representatives succeeded in rolling their missions at the parliaments; therefore, the horizontal conflict between the groups and state apparatus can be avoided.

I've witnessed how these masses confront local authority. We've been told by the media how disadvantages of getting trapped in chaotic circumstances. These pictures sequences are not propaganda to black campaigning any side. Within these images I've been witnessed of moral the story for whoever we are, you are, whether peoples or citizens as part of nations and authorities as the watchdog guardians to keep countries runs in securely, is to keep the modern and respectful ways of dialog in case of applicating democracy. Protest means doesn't necessarily destroy and legalized chaos. To protect and to serves doesn't mean to abuse power from the rights of citizens. We are part of questioning democracy.

Photo and words by Aokhi.