Political Participations of Rural Communities

Abstract

Political participation is one of the salient aspects in a development. This research was conducted to rural communities in Sukabumi, West Java, with the purpose of investigating how rural communities' political participations were and the affecting factors of the participations. The research employed qualitative approach with descriptive method. The result gained from the research was that rural communities' political participation in election was still low and it was because their political awareness was still lacking. In addition, other factors influencing the communities' political participations were encouragement from formal leaders or informal leaders, facilities and infrastructures in political events, political education, interest in certain political aspects.