Simultaneous General Election: It Is Fair for Democracy in Indonesia
Corresponding Author(s) : Kadir Johnson Rajagukguk
Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan : Kajian Ilmu Pemerintahan dan Politik Daerah,
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021): Good Governance and Local Politic
Abstract
This study discusses the implementation of simultaneous elections in 2019 which is the decision of the Constitutional Court No. 14/PUU-11/2013 on simultaneous elections, and the purpose of this study is to examine and analyze whether the 2019 concurrent elections took place democratically and have a success rate to strengthen the consolidation of democracy and institutionalization of political parties in Indonesia. This research was conducted in North Sumatra, Banten, West Java and West Kalimantan. Furthermore, this study uses the theory of the pillars of the democratic system and the Theory of Success of Procedural and Substantive Quality Democracy. The method of research that is used is descriptive method with qualitative approach. With data analysis techniques. The findings show that the democratization of a concurrent election in 2019 is analyzed based on the pillars of a system that gives influence to the quality of the success rate of a democracy both procedural democracy and substantive democracy that measures the success rate of a democracy. Simultaneous elections in 2019 have increased public political participation and the Indonesian Democracy Index (IDI) but a new study is needed to measure the institutionalization of political parties so that comprehensively it can be known the level of democratization, consolidation of democracy and its relation to institutionalization or institutionalization of political parties.
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- Abdurrachman, H., Majestya, N., Riyanti, R., Tegal, P., Muhammadiyah, U., Indonesia, S., &Election, G. (2020). Women as the Victim of Politics : Experiences in the 2019 Legislative Elections in Indonesia. 11(5), 463–76.
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Abdurrachman, H., Majestya, N., Riyanti, R., Tegal, P., Muhammadiyah, U., Indonesia, S., &Election, G. (2020). Women as the Victim of Politics : Experiences in the 2019 Legislative Elections in Indonesia. 11(5), 463–76.
Arifulloh, A. (2015). Implementation of Simultaneous Elections that are Democratic, Peaceful and Dignified. Renewal of the Law, 3(3), 301–311. [Crossref]
Chandra, T. (2015). Impacts of Indonesia's 2014 Presidential Election towards Stock Priceso Indonesia Stock Exchange. International Journal of Business and Management, 10(7). [Crossref]
Gai, A., & Tokan, F.B. (2020). Analysis of The Impact of Simultaneous Elections in Improving The Quality of Democracy in Indonesia: Case Study of Election Organizing in Kupang City-East Nusa Tenggara Province in 2019. Warta Governare: Journal of Government Sciences, 1(1), 109–128.
Herawati, R., & Sukma, N.M. (2019). Negative campaign presidential election 2019 on Indonesia national integration. International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research, 8(11), 1994–1997.
Hillman, B. (2017). Original Article Increasing Women's Parliamentary Representation in Asia and the Paci fi c : The Indonesian Experience. 4(1), 38–49. [Crossref]
Irawan, B.B. (2006). Development of Democracy in Indonesia. Perspectives, 5(1), 54–64.
Jalli, N., Jalli, N., &Idris, I. (2019). Fake News and Elections in Two Southeast Asian Nations: A Comparative Study of Malaysia General Election 2018 and Indonesia Presidential Election 2019. International Conference of Democratisation in Southeast Asia (ICDeSA 2019), 367(ICDeSA), 138–148. [Crossref]
Kristiyanti, D. A., Normah, &Umam, A. H. (2019). Prediction of Indonesia presidential election results for the 2019-2024 period using twitter sentiment analysis. Proceedings of 2019 5th International Conference on New Media Studies, CONMEDIA 2019, 36–42. [Crossref]
Natalia, A. (2015). The Role of Political Parties in The Success of Simultaneous Local Elections in Indonesia In 2015. TAPIs Journal, 11(1), 47–68.
Reza Syawawi, K. N. A. (2013). Election Bill: Half-Hearted Engineering. Encephale, 53(1), 59–65. [Crossref]
Riwanto, A. (2019). The Construction of Law Neutrality of State Civil Apparatus in the Simultaneous Local Election in Indonesia. Yuridika, 34(2), 237. [Crossref]
Rosyidi, A. Z., Mahyuni, M., &Muhaimi, M. (2019). Illocutionary Speech Acts Use by Jokowidodo in First Indonesia Presidential Election Debate 2019. International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 6(2), 735. [Crossref]
Solihah, R. (2016). Transactional Politics In Simultaneous Local Elections And Its Implications For Local Government in Indonesia. The Politics: Master's Journal of Political Science, Hasanuddin University, 2(1), 97–109.
Solihah, R. (2019). Opportunities and challenges of simultaneous elections 2019 in a political perspective. Journal of Governmentscience, 3(1), 73–88. [Crossref]
Sugiyono. (2012). Qualitative and Quantitative ResearchMethod. The alphabet.
Yandra, A. (2017). Fisibility of Simultaneous Regional Elections Phase Ii Pekanbaru City Post Journal Niara, 9(2), 84-91. [Crossref]
Yuliantoro, N. R. (2020). The 2019 Presidential Election and the BRI's Prospects in Indonesia. China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, 6(1), 79–102. [Crossref]
Zuhro, R. S. (2019). Democracy and the 2019 Presidential Election. Journal of Political Research, 16(1), 69.
Zulkarnaen, W., Fitriani, D., Sadarman, B., &Yuningsih, N. (2020). Evaluation of Logistics Distribution Performance of KPU West Java as a Parameter of Success of 2018 Concurrent Regional Elections. JIMEA | Scientific Journal of MEA (Management, Economics, and Accounting), 4(2), 264.