Making Informal Politics Work. Case of Local-Direct Election in Bangka Selatan, Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/icosop-17.2018.73How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Local Election, Decentralization, Democracy, Informal Politics, actors

Abstract

Local direct elections can be seen as thepractice of political decentralization in Indonesia. This political opportunity for local people can be varied in reality due to the different condition in the regions. Some regions are doing very well to bring more democratic realm, and in many regions also this opportunity only gives benefit to old elite and tempt to create any local-dynastic practice. The existence of informal actors like alocal strongman and the like is another consequent of localizing democracy in Indonesia nationwide. This research-based paper aims to analyze the existence of informal actors in influencing and shaping electoral process namely local election in Bangka Selatan, Sumatra, Indonesia. To acknowledge the local-informal actor, in this case, researchers employ some theoretical frameworks like informal politics, elites, and Bourdieu's theory of capitals, in concerning the post-authoritarian state and transitional democracy in Indonesia which is signed by informal actors, process and also patronage model. It is obvious then, that money is not always a central actor in theelectoralprocess, but another factor like informal networks is quite effective and significant ones. This finding will be very contributive to get better and factual understanding in seeing local politics dynamic in the contemporary democratic regime in Indonesia.

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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  - Agam Primadi
AU  - David Efendi
AU  - Husni Amriyanto
AU  - Rifki Rifki Sanahdi
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Making Informal Politics Work. Case of Local-Direct Election in Bangka Selatan, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 468
EP  - 477
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosop-17.2018.73
DO  - 10.2991/icosop-17.2018.73
ID  - Primadi2017/12
ER  -