Labolo, Muhadam and Averus, Ahmad and Riyani, Ondo and Ilham, Teguh (2018) WHY VOTERS DO NOT VOTE? A CASE STUDY OF THE ELECTION OF BATAM IN 2015. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought, 7 (2). pp. 23-34. ISSN 2156-6992
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Abstract
In Indonesia, direct local elections took place in 2015 and left some areas with very low political participation. One of them was Batam in which the voter turnout was only 50 percent. This paper analyzes the determinant factors in the lack of voters’ political participation. This study uses qualitative data (phenomenology paradigm) with a descriptive analytics method. The results illustrate the factors driving the low voter participation rate were not only caused by factors related to voter capacity such as ideology, idealism, and political education, but also by the other factors related to conditions at the time of voting, such as the poor weather, the celebration of worship, holidays, layoffs, security factors, money politics and the weariness of the voters as there were many elections in that year. Furthermore, the organizational capacity associated with administrative error (misadministration) resulted in voters failing to exercise their political rights. Batam has high heterogeneity and mobility levels that have an impact on the obstruction of the political education process and voter registration requires special handling such as reducing the length of holiday based on local policies and building up the polling place into workplace. In addition, it is necessary to change the pattern of security approaches and the elite’s point of view on money politics and the need to improve the speed of voter registration capacity due to the changing of population data. Lastly, the role of community leaders in educating and encouraging their community to participate in election needs to be examined. Keywords: Election, Political disorientation, Voter participation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Campus > IPDN Kampus Jatinangor |
| Depositing User: | S.IP, M.Si Kuncoro G. Pambayun |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2019 06:05 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2019 04:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ipdn.ac.id/id/eprint/2786 |
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