Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethics in Governance (ICONEG 2016)

Sustainability of Relationship between Business and Political Actors in Local Government Election

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Fitriyah Fitriyah
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Fitriyah Fitriyah
Available Online December 2016.
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10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.55How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Local government election; sustainability; political investor; political spending
Abstract

One component of a candidate's spending that caused high cost in direct election was the practice of money politics. In this context, the candidate's access to financial resources becomes essential. Political funding was needed in large numbers, creating spaces for the businessmen to become political investors for economic gain. The purpose of this study was to analyze the involvement of businessmen as investors at regency level. The research site was in Demak Regency of Central Java. The defeat of incumbents in Demak not be separated from political movements made by businessmen as the investors. The study used qualitative descriptive approach. Data were collected with in-depth interviews to 6 intentionally selected informants (purposive sampling), supported by secondary data from relevant documents. Data were analyzed using qualitative analysis. The result showed that there was a corruptive relationship between businessmen and the rulers, in which the businessmen became political investors and after election they could rearrange local government's project budget. The study also found that there was a sustainability of relationship between business and political actors from the previous elections . This research suggested to reduce the role of political investors and political spending of the candidate for money politics by theimplementation of effective regulations.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethics in Governance (ICONEG 2016)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2016
ISBN
10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.55
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.55How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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