POLITICAL BEHAVIOR IN THE 2020 SIMULTANEOUS REGIONAL HEAD ELECTIONS (PILKADA) IN INDONESIA
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Abstract
Regional Head Elections, more familiarly referred to as Pilkada, are manifestations of implementing democratic practices in Indonesia. The holding of regional head elections (pilkada) in 2020 is one of the regional elections that has reaped various highlights. This is because the 2020 Simultaneous Regional Elections were held in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic wave that broke out in Indonesia and even the world. Through Perpu Number 2 of 2020 concerning Regional Elections, the government stipulates that the regional head elections that were originally going to be held on September 23, 2020 must be postponed until December 9, 2020. This research then discusses the tendency of political behavior in the 2020 simultaneous regional elections in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and how law enforcement is held in the 2020 simultaneous regional elections. The type of research carried out in this study is normative legal research with a perspective approach. The data used in this study are secondary data and the author’s data collection technique is a literature study. In this study, the author then found that political behavior such as money politics and kinship politics, still colored the content of the simultaneous regional elections in 2020. In the 2020 regional elections, 124 candidates in the 2020 Simultaneous Regional Elections were affiliated with political dynasties. Furthermore, out of the total 124 candidates, the number of female candidates is 57 and 29 of them are the wives of previous regional heads in addition, as many as 104 cases of alleged money politics have occurred and spread across 19 provinces.
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