Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (IcoSaPS 2018)

5. The General Election Comission Role of Political Communication in Preventing Absent Voters in Sragen Regency

Authors
Dr. Sutopo, Roso Prajoko
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Dr. Sutopo
Available Online August 2018.
DOI
10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.5How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Political communication, abstention behavior, local general election.
Abstract

The phenomenon of absent voters has emerged since the New Order era and has continued to shade the Election Commission during the national and local elections’ processes. This study aims to explain the factors behind the phenomenon of absent voters in Sragen regency during the election. The research used qualitative method. It was conducted by using the case study approach, while the data were collected from in-depth interviews, documentation, records, and archives from KPU (General Election Commission) during the 2015 Sragen Election. Based on the absent voters’ data, the names of the latter were identified and a sample of them were selected as informants. The data were analyzed by using interactive methods from Miles and Huberman (1992). The analysis results were based on Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) theory that influences voting in the election, among which are: 1) the voters’ effort to disseminate the information given by KPU starting from the preparation stage of the election, 2) the information given by KPU were not equally distributed. The writer’s suggestions and recommendations include: 1) KPU to socialize the election more properly, 2) Socialization budget to ease the information dissemination needs to be addressed by the government.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (IcoSaPS 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-589-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.5How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, 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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