Women and Political Communications in North Sulawesi

Keywords

Women, Political Communication, Self-Concept, Qualitative, North Sulawesi

Abstract

The existence of women in Indonesian politics has been controlled by election law. This concrete with the pattern of affirmative action and zipper system. Verdict, North Sulawesi Province placed itself at a percentage of 33.3 percent or 15 legislators out of 45 the total number of all women representation in all the Provincial People's Representative Council in Indonesia in the period 2014-2019. With this phenomenon, researchers want to see how political communication legislator women in carrying out their duties and functions. Does gender difference affect the political communication of women and men legislators? To dissect the problem, researchers used a qualitative approach with 10 informants from 15 female legislators. The findings of the study found that female legislators have understood if they exist in the North Sulawesi Provincial People's Representative Council because of the political party that carries them. So that female legislators should be able to synergize with the faction as an extension of the political party. In the implementation of the Plenary Session, female legislators have been given the role to appear to read out the general views of the fraction or the final opinion of the faction. Women legislators, especially those who have two more periods utilize the moment of the Plenary Session. Which is usually attended by the executive to convey complaints about development in the election area that has not been touched and noticed. All women legislators say gender does not influence them to express opinions, advise, lobby, and so on

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Leviane Jackelin Hera Lotulung
AU  - Evie Ariadne Shinta Dewi
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Women and Political Communications in North Sulawesi
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 402
EP  - 406
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902426
ID  - Lotulung2017/11
ER  -