Legal Impact Of The Direct Election For Regional Leader In Jambi Province

Abstract

Indonesia adhere sovereignty of the people. The direct election for regional leaders constitutes the embody of democratic principle in Indonesia. The regional leaders have to realize the goals of national development in Indonesian.This research uses empirical socio-legal research approach, which analyses the impact of direct election on regional leader in Jambi Province. The researcher used theory of democracy and structural functionalism. Theory of democracy is used to analyse whether or not the direct election reflected the theory of democracy correctly. The theory of structural functionalism is used to examine and analyse the technical implementation of regional leader election. The theory can be explained in several theories of function, dysfunction, latent function and manifest function. This research describes the social engineering function of Regional Election Law directly in case of shaping the attitude and behaviour of democratic society.The control function that should be the guardian and the solution for a social control mechanism against the election violation which is also powerless. The phenomenon above provides a logical consequence that the function of the manifest is getting weaker because it is only the right of every citizen to participate in determining a leader to be elected. Meanwhilepolitical education builds a democratic attitude that fails to achieve its goals. The lateness functions to increaseviolation dominanty. Finally, this is apparent in the implementation of elections which result in very high political costs, the superimposition of democratic principles and the chaos of government.