The Power Versus Political Ethics in Selecting the Regional Head and Its Relationship with Corruption in Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200402.030How to use a DOI?

Keywords

power, law, political ethics, regional head election

Abstract

Election of Regional Heads (Pilkada) in Indonesia is an arena for political power struggles that are direct, general, free, secret, honest, and fair based on legal norms, social norms, and ethics. This political activity is often characterized by violations through all means that cause material, immaterial losses, and become a political burden that must be paid handsomely by elected Regional Head candidates. This reality is a concern of research to examine and question the violation of local election norms and ethics related to the legal behaviour of elected Regional Heads who commit unethical actions and violate the law in the form of corruption. The approach method in this research is basically based on normative juridical, which puts the law as a norm system and the law as applied law research, which means the application of legal provisions vertically and horizontally related to written and unwritten regulations as secondary data, which is then supplemented by primary data through socio legal approach. In action law is at any particular legal event that occurs in society. Politics, law and ethics are three different but inseparable things. Law and ethics are the norms that serve as guidelines for all community activities to run in an orderly manner. Violation of legal and ethical norms in all political activities in the implementation of local elections is an unconstitutional act and violates social norms in society that have the potential to encourage and trigger embryos of deviation from legal and ethical behaviour, as well as giving rise to motivation to commit corruption, so that in a short time can restore expensive political costs.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ayih Sutarih
AU  - Heryani Agustina
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/07
TI  - The Power Versus Political Ethics in Selecting the Regional Head and Its Relationship with Corruption in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agriculture, Social Sciences, Education, Technology and Health (ICASSETH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 130
EP  - 134
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200402.030
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200402.030
ID  - Sutarih2020
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