The Impact of Money Politics to the Indonesian Democratic System: With Special Reference to South Kalimantan Governor Election 2020
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- 10.2991/978-2-494069-65-7_2How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Money Politics; Local Election; Democracy
- Abstract
Money politics is a terrifying scourge for Indonesia’s democratic process. Politics and Money are two distinct groups that cannot be separated. Money politics practice has been undertaken since the first general election, so everyone must be aware of them. Money politics started from the election of village apparatus, district/city, provincial, to central level institutions. Even though there is an Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), the practice of money politics in the field still exists. The research evaluates the impact of money politics in the Local Election of South Kalimantan 2020. The research is a combination of normative and empirical research which uses the statute approach. The result shows that in South Kalimantan Governor Election 2020, the researchers believe there has been a structured practice of injustice or unfairness in the election process. Also, the petitioner proposes some points of Money Politics. Although it is difficult to prove it, we can analyze the main issues of the petition received by the Constitutional Court carefully. Therefore, the Constitutional Court decided to hold re-election in several polling stations, indicating that several parties violated the election principle.
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TY - CONF AU - Iwan Satriawan AU - Firdausy Shabrina Ramadhani PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/24 TI - The Impact of Money Politics to the Indonesian Democratic System: With Special Reference to South Kalimantan Governor Election 2020 BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation on Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (ICOSI-HESS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 3 EP - 16 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-65-7_2 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-65-7_2 ID - Satriawan2022 ER -