Political Participation In Indonesia Research Articles

Churches Political Participation in Indonesia: The Case Study of GKII

Indonesian churches face challenges and opportunities to engage in politics in certain situations. Responding to those, GKII through its teaching and discipleship demonstrates the political attitudes, beliefs and ethics regarding its political involvement in Indonesia. This research was conducted using a qualitative research approach to achieve the research objectives. The results show that GKII, as a church institution, is starting to be involved in nation-building after being inactive decades before. Practically, politics is the formation and distribution of power in society, which includes, among other things, the decision-making process, especially in state life. Therefore, GKII acknowledges and realises that its people, as church members and Indonesian citizens, have political rights, responsibilities and obligations towards the state. Every aspect of social, national, and state life is regulated by the political process in which the results are implemented accordingly. Politics is an integral part of humans as moral and social creatures with a divine mandate to rule. This implies that humans are both political and spiritual creatures. Religious institutions, such as churches, can mobilise people politically and act as intermediaries between individuals and the state. GKII also believes that the involvement of the past biblical figures in their world of politics can be a strong example for church members today. Those biblical figures and teachings have been deemed models by some Christians for their political involvement.

Kesetaraan Gender dan Representasi Politik: Perjuangan Partisipasi Perempuan dalam Politik di Kabupaten Nagan Raya, Aceh

Article 2 of Law Number 7 of 2008 concerning Political Parties jo. Article 173 Paragraph 2 of Law Number 7 of 2018 concerning General Elections mandates that political parties must include at least 30% women in their management and establishment; however, the practice of this target is not being met. The problem of this research focuses on the low participation of women in politics, both according to positive law and Islamic law, as well as the involvement of women in politics in the Nagan Raya DPRK through a fiqh siyasah analysis. This study aims to identify the level of women's political participation from the perspective of law and Islamic law and to explore the factors influencing women's political involvement in Nagan Raya. The research uses a qualitative descriptive method with a statutory approach and descriptive analysis. The research findings indicate that women's participation and position in politics are critical to the effectiveness of their role in policy formulation and decision-making within public institutions. The lack of women's participation in politics is due to the deeply ingrained patriarchal culture in society, which results in gender inequality between men and women. Women's representation in parliament to advocate for their rights and interests in decision-making or policy formulation remains very low. The contribution of this research is to provide insights into the importance of women's involvement in politics and its impact on creating more inclusive policies. This study also highlights the need to address social and cultural barriers to increasing women's political participation in Indonesia. .

Pengaruh Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Terhadap Partisipasi Politik Mahasiswa di Indonesia

Student political participation is an important indicator of the sustainability of democracy in Indonesia. However, the low level of student involvement in political activities is a problem that requires attention. This study aims to analyze the influence of civic education on student political participation in Indonesia. Civic education is seen as one of the strategic instruments to increase political awareness of the younger generation. This study uses a quantitative survey method with a descriptive approach. Data were collected through questionnaires distributed to students from various universities in Indonesia. The results of the study indicate that civic education has a significant influence in increasing student political awareness and involvement. This awareness is reflected in their active participation in political activities, both on campus and off campus, such as joining student organizations, political discussions, and elections. The conclusion of this study confirms that strengthening the civic education curriculum is very necessary to produce a young generation that is politically aware and responsible as citizens.

“SHAPING PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIETY:” THE APPLICATION OF RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY IN INDONESIA AND TURKIYE

Abstract This paper examines how rational choice theory influences governmental decision-making and individual political participation in Indonesia compared to Turkiye. It analyzes the government's ban on nickel exports as a case study to illustrate the application of rational choice theory in policy-making. Employing qualitative research methods and a literature review approach, the study draws from a diverse array of scholarly sources, including academic journals, articles, news reports, and more. Additionally, it explores how this theory can explain voter behavior during elections. In summary, rational choice theory offers a valuable framework for understanding both governmental decision-making and individual political behavior in Indonesia. By considering rational calculations, incentives, and constraints, policymakers and scholars can better comprehend the dynamics of governance and democratic participation. This understanding can inform more effective policy-making and strategies to enhance political engagement among citizens. Keyword : Rational Choice Theory, Public Policy, Political Participation.

From global trends to local realities: understanding women's political involvement for Indonesia's democratic progress

The urgency of this research lies in the need to understand the trends, contributions, and dynamics of women's political participation globally. This article aims to map studies that focus on women's political participation. Research methods include bibliometric analysis with data sources from the Scopus database. The study's findings reflect significant growth in women's political participation research, especially in recent years, with distribution varying by country and research theme. The research findings also show that although there are themes that have received attention, there are still areas that need to be explored further, such as intersectionality, gender equality, gender, and the impact of social media that provide insight into the complexity of women's political participation issues. This study recommends the need for increased research and local understanding of the factors influencing women's political participation in Indonesia to strengthen women's role in politics by learning from other countries that have successfully implemented inclusive policies. In addition, by involving various parties, including the government, research institutions, and civil society, Indonesia can create an environment that supports, empowers, and encourages women's political participation optimally. The implications of these findings not only help shape academic discourse, but also lay the foundation for concrete efforts to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment in the wider political sphere.

Analisis Budaya Patriarki dalam Partisipasi Politik Perempuan: Studi Kasus Pemilihan Kepala Daerah Tahun 2005-2020 di Kota Depok

Patriarchal culture creates gender stereotypes, limited access to political networks, and a social stigma for women who want to be involved in political activities. The gender gap is also evident in political representation where women hold a smaller percentage of political positions than men. The city of Depok, as a buffer zone for the capital city, is still thick with this culture, as evidenced by the minimal participation of women in regional elections from year to year. This study will analyze the obstacles to women's political participation in Indonesia caused by patriarchal culture. The case study used is the 2005-2020 Pilkada in Depok City. This research is a qualitative - explanatory research using observation and literature studies to find a deeper understanding of the problems being faced. This study uses three main theories, namely the theory of patriarchy, political participation, and gender stereotypes. From the data that has been analyzed, the main cause of the low political participation of women in the Pilkada in Depok City from 2005-2020 is the strong patriarchal culture. Several factors cause the patriarchal culture to continue to develop in Depok City, namely gender stereotypes, low political education, double burden, and weak political party support for women during elections. This study recommends policy interventions in efforts to increase the level of education for women such as increasing women's representation in political parties, increasing the level of education for women, and empowering women in various sectors such as entrepreneurship, health, and so on to eliminate patriarchal culture and increase women's political participation in Indonesia.

How Gender Orders and Islamic Influence Affect Women’s Participation in Indonesian Politics?

This paper explores the long history of gender orders construction in Indonesia. How gender order and the influence of religious taught affect women political participation in Southeast Asia will be explored. In this case, the author focuses on Indonesian women and the influence of Islam as the majority religion in Indonesia. This paper argues that women political participation in Indonesia, although it seems limited by cultural and the so-called Islamic values, actually has experienced significant growth, especially after the Reformation. The gender relations that formed under the New Order that enshrined women as secondary to men which also emphasised by Islam teachings about men prerogative may seem to hinder women participation in public. However, this paper found that there were some contradictions of positioning women role under the state gender order, which has led to some positive effects on women. This contributed to the rise of women participation in Indonesia politics, especially after the reformation era.

Open and Distance Education to Promote Political Participation in Indonesia

This study empirically evaluated Universitas Terbuka students' political participation. This study used a quantitative approach with a survey research design. Data was collected through the distribution of questionnaires to Sociology Study Program students of the Universitas Terbuka in Malang. The analysis technique utilized descriptive statistics. The study results showed that the average level of student political participation is quite high. Open and distance education had the potential to strengthen the political participation of Indonesian citizens through various activities. Measuring student political participation in universities with an open and long-distance system still needs to be carried out, especially in Indonesia; therefore, the authors recommend that future researchers develop a more credible measurement tool and study it uses a more comprehensive approach.

The Social Network Approach for Analyzing Political Participation in Indonesia during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

This study is intended to conduct a scoping review of the application of social network analysis (SNA) in predicting political participation in Indonesia, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The literature shows that investigations into political participation are not new in Indonesia. However, research that uses the application of SNA as an approach to explain the behavior of political participation in Indonesia is still very rare. For this reason, a scoping review is needed to provide an overview of political participation using a social network lens. The scoping review implementation was guided by Arksey and O'Malley's 5-step framework. The results of the scoping review show that the political participation among Indonesians is considered at a sufficient level, especially at the regional level. However, investigations of political participation using the SNA method are shown to be very rare. This research is useful for showing topics that can be explored in the social and political fields, especially by using the individual social network approach.

Young voters and political participation in Indonesia: Revisiting a marriage gap

AbstractObjectivesThis article responds to an understudied question on how does marital status make a difference in terms of voter turnout among young people in the Muslim world.MethodsThe article draws on the 2010 Muslim Youth Survey and focus on 1127 respondents aged between 15 and 25 in Indonesia. Using binominal logistic regression analysis, it seeks to examine how marital status affects Indonesian young people’s voting behaviour in three types of elections held in 2009: legislative, presidential, and regional.ResultsThe finding confirms that married young individuals are more likely to vote than those who are not married. However, the marriage gap only exists in the legislative and presidential elections as the impact of marital status diminishes in regional elections.ConclusionThis paper contributes to the literature by examining how the marriage gap in politics does not only occur in post‐industrialized and developed countries. Also, regional election systematically prevents young voters to participate as the ballot sheets are only available in respective jurisdiction.

The Driving Factor for Stability of Voter Turnout in Southeast Asia: The Evidence from Malaysian and Indonesian Elections

The objective of the study was to describe voter participation (turnout) in South East Asia, particlarry in Indonesian and Malaysian elections from 2004–2019, and the factors that cause stable participation. The participation of voters (turnout) in Malaysia’s elections from 2004–2018 is 73.90–84%. The participation of voters in Indonesia’s elections from 2004–2019 is 70.99–84.09%. This means that voter participation in the last three election periods was stable in both countries. This study shows that four factors cause stable participation: political awareness, rationality, political perceptions, and electoral orientation that is candidate-oriented. The theoretical implication of this study was to strengthen Timothy Feddersen and Alvaro Sandroni, and John G. Matsusaka’s theory about voter political participation or voter behaviour on election day. The originality of this study is that there are special characteristics behind stable political participation in Indonesia and Malaysia. Methods of data collection in this study is based on literature study and analytical method uses the descriptive analysis method. This study also uses a political comparison approach to analyse data.

Indonesia’s rise in digital democracy and youth’s political participation

ABSTRACT The platform of digital media has particularly reshaped the political structure of Indonesia. The public is using social media applications for political participation and an expression of their political opinions. This survey was conducted in Indonesia to examine the impact of digital media among youngsters and their political engagement through digital platforms. The study was influenced by the phenomenon of massive student participation, which occurred in August 2019, in Indonesia as a reaction to a new corruption (KPK) law. The study opted for the public sphere theory of Jürgen Habermas; ‘The Public Sphere’. This correlates to the study objective whereby youth participate in political matters to learn and to discuss their common beliefs in the public spheres. The study design is quantitative and more than four hundred respondents were selected during the protests through random sampling techniques. The conclusion of the study demonstrates that youth participate in multiple activities, such as protests for new laws, which indeed strengthen democracy and contribute to the political structure of Indonesia. Therefore, youth participation through social media platforms shows their political participation in Indonesia. The study also suggests a few recommendations for youth to show their participation through online spheres.

Understanding the Voter’s Behavior as an Effort to Increase Publics’ Political Participation in Indonesia

This article is based on the reflection of voter’s participation issue in determining their political choices on Indonesia’s election momentum. The increasing number of political participation in abstention is an exciting issue to be studied in democratic countries. It is exciting because one of the benchmarks for the success of democracy is based on society's participation in elections. This article seeks to present a comprehensive overview of voter’s behavior through various theoretical points of view. Literature review method is used in arranging this article. This article introduces the voter’s behavior and a discussion of theoretical approaches to read the voter's behavior. This article focuses on the main findings of relevant theory and empirical research that provide insight related to the factors that cause voting behavior and their relations. This article concludes that people have different voting behaviors. Some voters vote based on sociological factors such as social communities, family, ethnicity, and religion and are also influenced by psychological factors such as identifying political parties, candidates, and issues.

Communication strategy to improve women's political participation in Indonesia

This paper aims to determine how the communication strategy used to improve women's political participation in Indonesia. The essence of the communication strategy is planning and management to achieve one goal. To reach this goal, strategy functioned not only as a roadmap to lead the way but also has to show how the operational tactics. Communication strategy is a blend of communication planning and communication management to attain a specific purpose. To compose communication strategy, there are several factors which have to be considered necessary. First, knowing the public is the first step fora communicator to create effective communication. Note that in the communication process, the audience is active instead of passive. So between the communicator and communicant not only occurs relations but also influence that affect each other. Second, compile message, namely determining theme and subject. The main requirement to change public from this message is the capability to arouse their concern. The concern is a central observation. Thus not all who observed could trigger attention. Therefore the beginning of communication effectivity is the rise of the public’s attention toward the delivered messages.

Pemaknaan The Power of Emak-Emak di Media Sosial

The movement of the Power of Emak-Emak in the 2019 Presidential Election became significant considering a large number of female voters in the 2019 Presidential Election. Besides potential voters, women were also active social media users. This study aims to see the meaning of mothers towards the movement of The Power of Emak-Emak in relation to women's political participation in Indonesia. This study uses the Reception Analysis by Stuart Hall. The approach used is qualitative by conducting in-depth interviews with four active social media users. The results of the study showed that the dominant meaning of The Power of Emak-Emak Movement was part of the active role in women's political participation in the 2019 Presidential Election.

Web-based Information Openness to Increasing Political Participation in Indonesia

This qualitative research aims to describe the use of web-based information disclosure to increase political participation in Indonesia. Technological advancements make it easier for the Indonesian people to understand political participation. Jari Ungu is a web-based communication media created to recognize legislators in 2014-2019, government regulations, governor and legislative candidates for 2019-2024. Data is taken through a literature study of 10 articles related to political participation. The researchers also collaborated with five participants aged 18-25 years, five participants aged 30-40 years, five participants aged 50-60 years and three legislative candidates for interviews live in Jakarta. The results of the study indicate that web-based can improve political participation in Indonesia. In addition, Jari Ungu as a web-based provides convenience to the public in recognizing legislative members as well as prospective legislative members. Jari Ungu also provides an opportunity for the public to oversee every policy and regulation made by legislative members and governors in various provinces in Indonesia. Even though 10 from 40 participants didn’t know about Jari Ungu. This research can be used as a source of information for socialization to the community in areas related to web-based political participation education. It is the legislative members they choose.

New media for increasing political participation in Indonesia

This paper aims to corelation among The development of information and communication technology (ICT) encouraging diverse patterns of change including government and public relations in a democracy this research is a library study, a library that contains an in-depth collection of materials for one more subjects. Research libraries usually include primary and secondary sources. In the end we must realize ICT is a tool not a solution for democracy. The main lesson from countries that are able to adopt the principles of e-democracy to improve the quantity and quality of participation of its citizen is a good preparation prior to application in the field.

Political Participation Convergence in Indonesia: A Study of Partisan Volunteers in the 2019 Election

This paper offers an analysis of convergent political participation in Indonesia, which is represented by the strengthening role of partisan volunteers in elections. Using the library research method, this paper explains why partisan volunteers present strategic positions in elections, especially in 2019. The results of this research reveal that the strengthening of the positions of partisan volunteers in elections is driven by the level of public trust in weak political parties in a strict and complex multiparty system, the emergence of flexible and civic-style political participation, and the co-optation of the voluntary understanding and function by political parties to reach undecided voters. The existence of volunteers was initially based on the antithetical spirit of an elitist political process, but later became a complementary element for political parties in the effort to win elections. Consequently, the involvement of partisan volunteers can lead to transactional politics and signifies a shift in the meaning of volunteers to that of a pragmatic arena.

Partisipasi Politik Perempuan Menurut Fatima Mernissi dan Relevansinya dengan Affirmative Action di Indonesia

Abstract: This article will discuss Fatima Mernissi’s thought on the importance of involving women’s participation in the political realm, as an important way of fighting for gender equality in the Muslim countries, including Indonesia where women’s political participation is low. According to Mernissi, to achieve equality the government must increase the capacity of women’s leadership. So the women can participate actively and enjoy their human rights in the country. This study shows that despite law in Indonesia No. 10 2008 concerning the elections for DPR, DPD and DPRD, article 8 paragraph 1 letter d stating that “political parties can participate in the election after fulfilling the requirements to include at least 30% representation of women in the management of central political parties” known as affirmative action, does not appear to have a significant impact on the level of women’s political participation in Indonesia. According to Mernissi’s thought, this condition may be caused by the problem of the authority of religious interpretation about the women’s participation in the public sphere.

DISCURSUS OF WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS BASED ON AL-QUR'AN; Empirical study on women's political participation in Jakarta, Indonesia

The aim of this study is to illustrate the general Islamic view of women and their rights in political participation. Qualitative methods are used with the basis of collecting secondary data sourced from books, journals and scientific publications from relevant agencies. Geographically, the study provides an overview of women's political participation in Indonesia. This is based on the assumption that the majority of Indonesia's population are Muslim and the level of women's political participation in Indonesia is getting better every year. The result of the study is expected to be an overview and the basis of policy development related to increasing women's political participation in the perspective of Islam