Democracy Challenges in Lampung Province: Young Voter and Religious Approach in Eradication of Vote Buying

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10.2991/978-2-38476-046-6_68How to use a DOI?

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Challenges of Democracy; Lampung Province; Young Voters; Money Politics

Abstract

Money politics has given rise to unhealthy competition for election participants and has been identified as a cause of increasing corruption. In Indonesia, more specifically in Lampung Province, money politics has always colored the election of regional heads, both governors, regents, and mayors. Serious efforts are needed to prevent the occurrence of money politics against young voters in order to ensure the continuity of democracy in Lampung Province. This qualitative research examines the religious approach as an option to prevent money politics for young voters. Primary data was collected by using in-depth interviews with young voters with religious backgrounds. As a result, a religious approach in preventing money politics can be applied to young voters. The argument is that young voters accept money politics more on the belief that money politics does not conflict with religious teachings and most do not know religious laws about money politics. However, young voters will reject money politics if religion forbids it. It can be identified that young voters have minimal literacy about money politics originating from religion. Thus, the future of democracy in Lampung province will be even more difficult because in addition to young voters who have more opportunities to become voters in the regional head election, they are permissive to money politics, the religious approach that has been carried out by stakeholders through various programs needs to be evaluated.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fatikhatul Khoiriyah
AU  - Ahmad Syarifudin
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/02
TI  - Democracy Challenges in Lampung Province: Young Voter and Religious Approach in Eradication of Vote Buying
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Universitas Lampung International Conference on Social Sciences (ULICoSS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 694
EP  - 703
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-046-6_68
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-046-6_68
ID  - Khoiriyah2023
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