Simultaneous Regional Elections Research Articles

Marketing Politik di Media dan Softening News Gibran Rakabuming Raka dalam Pemilihan Wali Kota Solo

The fourth Simultaneous Regional Election, or Pilkada, will be held in December 2020. However, the future-elected-candidate in simultaneous Regional Election will only have a shorter period of time, but many candidates with various backgrounds might enrol during this election. One of the candidates might be Gibran Rakabuming Raka, who will join election as Mayor in Solo. Gibran is the eldest son of Presiden Indonesia, Joko Widodo. We could find pros and cons during his contestation. Gibran had been enrolled as a member of Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan (PDIP) as his political vehicle to win the election. PDIP itself is open for any possibilities that want to be regional leaders from PDIP. PDIP had not been decided yet on the candidate who will compete for regional election. Nevertheless, Gibran has been preparing his strategies to be a candidate from PDIP for the Regional Election in Solo. A candidate or political party applied political marketing to achieve him/her/their goal, which is winning the election. Related to the oriented party concept from Lees-Marshment, Gibran tried to apply value from PDIP. His public appearance in the media and activity of blusukan are carried out so will be in line with the value of PDIP. Besides news coverage of pro-cons of the election, there are many softening news about Gibran instead of his working program for the election.

Kesadaran Hukum Masyarakat Pemalang Terhadap Pilkada Serentak Tahun 2020 di Era Pandemi Covid-19


 
 
 
 This paper aims to seek or develop public legal awareness and efforts to develop the Pilkada in the Covid-19 Pandemi Era. The research method used in this paper uses juridical empirical, with a qualitative approach. The data technique uses observation, interviews, and literature studies. Data checking techniques used triangulation and analysis using interactive models. The results showed that the awareness of Pemalang Regency people in the middle to lower category was still low, while people with the middle to upper category had started to have knowledge and understanding of the simultaneous regional elections and their policies and how the considerations for choosing, exercising their rights and obligations, and procedures were in the era of the Covid-19 pandemi. In addition, the attitudes and behavior of the middle to upper class society have begun to be structured, reprimanding officers who underestimate their duties. The factors that influence the legal awareness of Pemalang Regency society, namely: education, economy, religion, and socio-cultural factors. Then, efforts to build their awareness through counseling and campaigns about simultaneous regional elections, especially during the Covid- 19 pandemic.
 
 
 

Direct and Simultaneous Regional Head Election in Indonesia with Government Efforts to Build a Balance of Political and Managerial Approaches

This study aims to implement government efforts in direct and simultaneous regional head elections by building a balance between politics and managerial in Indonesia. The case studies in this study used direct and simultaneous elections in 2015, 2017, and 2018. Direct and simultaneous regional elections in 2015, 2017, and 2018 were the population in this study, while samples were obtained from primary data and secondary data. There were six observations which included grant funds, voter data, voter participation, SCA neutrality, security and order, and acting for regional head preparation. The policies regarding the regional government law and the election law as well as building the political and managerial balance of the government are expected to be able to anticipate and overcome problems that arise in direct and simultaneous regional head elections. Originality in this study is a new approach in building balance with a managerial approach to governance and the decentralization approach. Besides, it can provide alternative suggestions and input that encourage the development of a balance of political and managerial dimensions of government in direct and simultaneous local elections in Indonesia.

Legalitas Pencalonan Kepala Daerah Dari Unsur Tentara Nasional Indonesia Dan Polisi Republik Indonesia Dalam Pemilihan Kepala Daerah 2018

This study aims to analyze the legality of the nomination of regional heads from the elements of Indonesian National Army (TNI) and Indonesian National Police (Polri) in the 2018 simultaneous regional elections. With problems formulation as follow : First, is the nomination of regional heads from elements of TNI and Polri in the 2018 simultaneous regional elections in line with the legislation? Second, what are the proper arrangements for regional head candidates from the elements of TNI and Polri in the 2018 simultaneous regional elections? This study uses a juridical-normative approach. In addition, this study also uses a field study approach based on the scope and identification of the existing problems. The results of the study concluded as follow: First, TAP MPR Number VII / MPR / 2000 on the Role of TNI and the Role of Police; Law Number 34 of 2004 on Indonesian National Army and Law Number 2 of 2002 Indonesian National Police determine that the TNI and Polri are impartial in political affairs and do not involve themselves in practical political activities. TNI and Polri can hold civilian positions after resigning or retiring from the TNI and Polri institutions, so that they do not conflict with the statutory regulations. Second, even though they have resigned, active members of the TNI and Polri who wish to run for regional head candidates should first wait for a gap of at least two years, to ensure the impartiality and maintain the morale of the TNI and Polri institutions.

Design of General Election in Indonesia

The 2019 general elections in Indonesia have been held differently from the previous period. The 2019 general elections held simultaneously five boxes. This article discusses how the implementation of the 2019 general election and how the rather election should be carried out in the future. The author concludes that the implementation of simultaneous general elections in 2019 caused tremendous complexity for participants, voters, and organizers. The complexity and constraints that occur make the selection process not run well and less efficient and effective time spent. Then for the coming period, the elections should be carried out using the design of simultaneous national elections and simultaneous regional elections. In the simultaneous national election, it held to elect the President and Vice President, members of the House of People’s Representative, and members of the Regional Representative Board. Then in the simultaneous regional election, it held to elect the Governor, Regent/ Mayor, Provincial Legislative Council, and Regency/ City Legislative Council.

Simultaneous Elections in North Aceh Regency: An Islamic Perspective

The 2019 Simultaneous Regional Election has brought about some problems which threaten the quality of local democracy, especially in North Aceh Regency, Indonesia. The research aims at discussing the practice of regional election in North Aceh Regency from Islamic perspective. In Islamic law, the implementation of elections is carried out in accordance with the principles of justice and equal rights. This research is a normative and empirical study, where the research data is obtained through library research and interviews with informants. While the data analysis used is descriptive analysis. The results show that the problems in the implementation of the 2019 simultaneous elections in North Aceh Regency according to Islamic law were; first, there is a question on neutrality of the Election Commission officers in carrying out its duties and functions, such as taking sides to certain candidates or parties by way of inflating votes. This is contrary to the principles of Islamic law, namely the principles of justice and equal rights; Second, the weakness of human resources in operating computers for inputting voter data and election result data. In Islamic law, the lack of qualified human resources has an impact on the inability to account for the mandate as caliph; and third, the inadequate facilities and infrastructure, both for offices (workspaces, desks, computers, and other supporting equipment) and non-available official vehicles. This situation is contrary to objective of Islamic law, namely maqashid sharia, such as essential element of life (dharuri), complementary element of life (haji) and accessories of life (tahsini) needs.

Democratization and Performance of General Election Commission on Implementation of Simultaneously Province Regional Election

The General Election Commission (KPU) has finished carrying out regional head elections in 17 provinces in 2018. The implementation of this regional head election is the first history of the simultaneous implementation of governor elections. KPU's performance was highlighted in this simultaneous regional head election. The number of voters in the 2018 Governor and Deputy Governor Election amounted to 143,667,935. Community participation in the 2018 Concurrent Local Election is in the range of 72%. KPU has targeted community participation of 77 percent. Of the 17 provinces that held gubernatorial elections, only Papua province exceeded the voter participation target. While the disability voter participation is on average 49 percent with the highest disability voter level in Maluku at 96 percent and the lowest in Central Java 32 percent. Furthermore, the findings related to ballots are invalid. Invalid ballots in the election of governors and deputy governors were 3,098,239, equivalent to 3 percent of all election logistics used. The most invalid ballots are found in Central Java Province, namely 778,805 ballots, East Kalimantan as many as 50,110 ballots, and East Java with 782,027 ballots. The research conducted found results that there were alleged violations that occurred in the 2018 simultaneous regional election. It was suspected that there were 1,095 violation reports and 2,038 violation findings. The number of violations in the Regional Head Election this time is greater than the previous election. This is due to the fact that the number of regions holding this year's Election is bigger than the 2017 election, which is 101 regions. The details of these violations were 291 criminal violations, 853 administrative violations, 114 violations of the code of ethics, 712 violations of other laws, and 619 categories not violations or not proven. Regarding voter voting rights, the high number of Transfer Voters List (DPPH) and Additional Voters List (DPTb). Of the total 143,667,935 people who voted in the simultaneous regional elections in 2018, there were 173,553 voters from DPPH and 2,032,556 voters from DPTb. To note, the number of DPTb is the basis for evaluating the process of updating voter data throughout the election stages. So that the performance of KPU voters' data collection is in the quite effective category.

Analisis Reaksi Pasar Atas Peristiwa Pilkada Serentak Tahun 2018

This study aims to determine market reaction in the event of simultaneous regional elections in 2018. This research is an event study with a period of observation for 7 days. The study was conducted on companies classified as LQ45 from February to July 2018. The population in this study was 45 companies. The method of determining the sample used is a non probability sampling method with a purposive sampling technique. The sample obtained was 37 companies. The market reaction to the 2018 simultaneous regional elections was measured using abnormal return and trading volume activity. The data analysis technique used is paired-sample t-test. The test results show that there is no difference in average abnormal return and trading volume activity before and after the events of simultaneous regional elections. This shows that simultaneous regional elections in 2018 did not cause market reaction because there was no information content on the event.
 Keywords: Event study, abnormal return, politics

Political Budget Cycles At Subnational Level: Evidence From The Indonesian Simultaneous Regional Election In 2015

This study examines the existence of local budget utilization behaviour by incumbents who have politically interested policies, since they have motive to attract prospective voters. This study focuses on 254 provincial and districts/cities in Indonesia which held simultaneous regional head election in 2015. It analyses targeted expenditures that have highly visible to please voters, and allegedly affect vote-share results, such as budget deficits, total spending, investment spending, discretionary funds include its sub components: grants, social aids, and financial aids. According to the results obtained, there is no indication of politically driven fiscal policy by incumbent candidates in almost all spending categories. However, there is a positive and significant relationship between the regions that have incumbents and grant expenditure subcategory behaviour. This finding indicates that this category expenditure is still popular among incumbents to stimulate citizens and gain sufficient vote-share later on.

Upaya Komisi Pemilihan Umum Provinsi Sumatera Selatan dalam Meningkatkan Partisipasi Pemilih pada Pilkada Serentak 2018 dan Pemilu Serentak 2019

This study explains the efforts of the South Sumatra Provincial Election Commission in increasing the political participation of the people of South Sumatra in the 2018 Simultaneous Local Election and 2019 Concurrent Elections. Democracy is determined by the voice of the people, and is closely related to legitimacy "the fewer choose the lower legitimacy, the more they choose high legitimacy. "Legitimacy is very important because of the initial legitimacy of everything in the process of implementing power from the leader. The problem in this study is how the South Sumatra Provincial Election Commission's efforts in increasing community political participation in the 2018 simultaneous regional elections and 2019 simultaneous elections, and public response to the efforts made by the South Sumatra Provincial Election Commission. This study aims to describe the efforts of the KPU of South Sumatra Province and find out the public response to the efforts of the KPU of South Sumatra Province. Theoretically this research is useful to be a reference in the study of political science and is able to become a reference in future research related to the ongoing democracy in Indonesia and the practical benefits of being able to become input to the KPU of South Sumatra Province. The theory used by researchers is Max Weber's legitimacy theory where this theory explains how important participation is to legitimacy. By using descriptive type method and qualitative approach, the data obtained by using interviews, observation, and documentation. Researcher's location is at the KPU of South Sumatra Province. The results of the study show that the KPU of South Sumatra Province has made 350 efforts to increase the political participation of the people. The result prived that the political participation percentage in crease from 63% in 2013, 69,2% in 2018, and 81,42% in 2019. Efforts to increase people's political participation will continue to be increased.

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

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.

Beginner Voter’s Behavior: Study of the Simultaneous Regional Elections at Karawang Regency, West Java

The purpose of this study is to know: Beginner Voter Behavior, the extent to which parties influence the political party influence the behavior of voter’s beginners, and factors that can affect voter behavior in Pedes Regency in the Simultaneous Regional Elections in Karawang regency in 2015. This study uses phenomenological approach, analytical descriptive method, and various qualitative research. The qualitative data needed in this research is related to: Beginner Voter Behavior, the extent to which parties influence the political parties to influence the behavior of the beginning voters, and what factors may affect voter behavior in Pedes District in the Simultaneous Regional Elections in Karawang regency in 2015 that is appropriate data and considered it is necessary to solve the problems formulated in the study. The analysis involves Beginner Voter Behavior, the extent to which political parties influence the behavior of novice voters, and factors that may influence voter behavior in Pedes District in the Simultaneous Regional Elections in Karawang Regency in 2015.

Beginner Voter’s Behavior: Study of the Simultaneous Regional Elections at Karawang Regency, West Java

The purpose of this study is to know: Beginner Voter Behavior, the extent to which parties influence the political party influence the behavior of voter’s beginners, and factors that can affect voter behavior in Pedes Regency in the Simultaneous Regional Elections in Karawang regency in 2015. This study uses phenomenological approach, analytical descriptive method, and various qualitative research. The qualitative data needed in this research is related to: Beginner Voter Behavior, the extent to which parties influence the political parties to influence the behavior of the beginning voters, and what factors may affect voter behavior in Pedes District in the Simultaneous Regional Elections in Karawang regency in 2015 that is appropriate data and considered it is necessary to solve the problems formulated in the study. The analysis involves Beginner Voter Behavior, the extent to which political parties influence the behavior of novice voters, and factors that may influence voter behavior in Pedes District in the Simultaneous Regional Elections in Karawang Regency in 2015.

Political Marketing Activity In Simultaneous Regional Elections 2015

Regional head election system was change in 2015. It has impact on political marketing strategy to all stake holders, such as political party and candidatures.The purposes of this research is to analyzeashifting ofpolitical marketing issueson regional election 2015. The research approach uses the mix method with the type of sequential explanatory. The subjects of this research are the candidates, election successful teams or supporting team, and young voters. Location of research based on cluster system district and sub district in Bandung, Cianjur, Magelang, Sleman, and Medan. The data are collected through techniques of questionnaires to young voters; interview to candidates, election successful teams and young voters, as well as the documentation of media and data on Regional General Elections Commission (KPUD). There are also triangular data techniqueinterviews with the General Elections Commission (KPU), the community and supporting team, and documentation and questionnaire form. The result shows that the system of political marketing has already started shifting from product, promotion, price, place, and people known as the 5Ps from mostly dominated by Political Partyinto the role of PEOPLE as candidature in influensing the voters. The Result also tells that shifting from using convetional media into almost using digital media was powerfull.

PSEUDO-DEMOCRACY

Simultaneous regional election is a happening legal issue in early 2017. It involves 102 regions which consist of 94 districts/cities and 8 provinces conducting the elections. In the context of autonomy, the sustainability of regional elections is an attempt to seek an aspirative, accommodative and progressive leader profile. Leadership figures which are close to society become the key of success for development and empowerment of the region by its characteristics.....

Implikasi Pergeseran Sistem Politik terhadap Hukum dan Birokrasi di Indonesia

Coalition can be the effective way to collect the power for struggle in the competitive politics. In Indonesia, after the reform era, the coalition system being the most popular system that granted by the constitution. Phrase ”coalition of political parties” in the article number 6A point (2) UUD 1945 shows us that the coalition system is the constitutional and the fix way. From all the historical story about the coalition of political parties in Indonesia, we can make a conclusion that the coalition system wich is exist in Indonesia is just coalition made by interest, not ideology. Coalition only to reach the “threshold”. Political parties only thinking about how to complete the mission to propose the candidate. Surely, That’s all the problem. We can see that the coalition system in Indonesia just make some paradox. For example, in presidential election 2014, in one hand we can see the batle between “KMP” and “KIH”, but in the other hand, we cand find a different situation in local politic competition. On 9 December 2015, The simultaneous regional election was completed held, and I saw that the battle between KMP and KIH wasn’t happened in that moment. Based on the fact from KPU, we can find in some region, the inconsistence coalition was built by the political parties which is member of KMP join with member of KIH. That condition shows us that the coalition system in Indonesia is just based on interest. There is no linear/consistence coalition between central and local, so automatically we can find a question, “where is the platform, vision and mission of political party in Indonesia? And How about the impact to the bureaucratic system between central and local government?. Finally, The Author is trying to answer the questions in this paper.

Representasi Politik Perempuan dalam Pilkada Serentak 2015 fi Indonesia

This paper examines the political representation of women in Simultaneous Regional Elections which was held in 2015. The research focuses on how the representation of women in executive nomination (Regent/Mayor and Deputy Regent/Deputy Mayor) in Simultaneous Regional Elections 2015. Question derivative of this study is about how the journey of political representation of women and how to improve the political representation of women in politics in Indonesia. Based on the results of critical reflection researcher of secondary data, this research produced; The first: In Simultaneous Regional Elections in December 2015 there are 57 women out of 823 people who run for local office and 66 women out of 823 people who run for deputy regional head. Against this background categorized in incumbent, kinship network, party cadres, former member of Parliament/Council/Parliament, popular figures, entrepreneurs/businessmen, members of NGOs/CBOs, former members of the military/police/civil servants, as well as the former head of the region. Second: in improving the representation of women in the elections, there should be a formal education and advocacy on culturally in order to cleanse society of patriarkism and religious conservatism, so that voters can view the importance of the gender equality agenda in the election.