Political Culture of Coastal Society in the Hinterland Area of Batam CityThis research examines the political culture of coastal communities in the face of Simultaneous Regional Elections of 2015 in Batam City. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of political culture and the participation of coastal society in political activities, especially elections, because there is no

Diah Ayu Pratiwi,Meri Enita Puspita Sari

doi:10.14419/ijet.v7i2.29.14307

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This research examines the political culture of coastal communities in the face of Simultaneous Regional Elections of 2015 in Batam City. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of political culture and the participation of coastal society in political activities, especially elections, because there is no research that discusses the political culture of coastal society in particular. Research that discusses the political life of coastal society has not been discussed, especially how the role and views of society on political life and government. In fact, coastal society are groups that will be affected and feel the consequences of these political activities. This research uses qualitative method. The respondents are selected by purposive sampling technique and data obtained by observation and in-depth interview. The findings in this study indicate that the type of coastal society culture is included in the type of participant political culture, in which the level of participation society in Simultaneous Regional Elections of 2015 is quite high and their knowledge on political activity is sufficient.

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Political culture is part of the culture of society with more distinctive features
In order to describe the political culture of coastal society of Buluh Island, this study uses three types of political culture, namely the type of parochial political culture, the type of subject political culture, and the type of participant's political culture
The finding of the research showed that the political culture formed Buluh Island society was classified into the type of participant political culture and was a fairly rational voter in voting candidates in the General Election

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The term of political culture is closely related to people's awareness to participate in collective decision-making and public policy makers to the whole community. The public believes that the involvement in the election will have political literacy, which can generate political awareness in society. The existence of awareness and public participation in political activities will reflect a political culture in a society. Almond and Verba [3] stated that there are three types of political culture They are: [1] Parochial Political Culture, less political consciousness of most societies, less knowledge of politics, less participation of society in the political process they are aware the center of power. The following table 1.1 on the number of fishing society in Kepulauan Riau

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