This paper aims to reveal the relationship between ethnicity and democracy in the regencies of South Sorong in West Papua Province and Keerom in Papua Province, both situated in Indonesia’s easternmost island of Papua. By using Madisonian practice to examine the ethnic party and separatist logics in both regencies, this study explores the presence of coope…
Merete Bech Seeberg.
This article discusses about a political shari’ah’s view on the implementation of the village’s head election in Daleman-Kedungdung-Sampang. The results of the research conclude that the mechanism of the village’s head election starting from the formation of the committee election, the candidates crawl, the campaign, the voice collecting and counting, and the announcement and the establ…
This article focuses on the role of the National Awakening Party (PKB) in the local parliament. This research concludes that the role of PKB of DPRD in Sumenep is committed by the spirit of fighting poverty and encouraging the grass root people-based APBD. These spirits are appropriate with the principle of maslahah (benefit) and ‘adl (justice). In line with the above conclusion, it is expect…
This article discusses the individual candidate in the general election of regional head in political jurisprudence perspective. Before the Mahkamah Konstitusi’s decision No. 5/PUU-V/2007 pointed out, the individual candidate could have enter the two political institutions; first, in the 2004 general election, the individual candidate competed to get into the institution of the Regional Repre…
This paper discusses about the role of KH Abdul Ghofur within the general election in 2014 in Paciran-Lamongan. KH Abdul Ghofur was the one behind the winning effort of Gerindra party in Paciran. From the results of recapitulation of votes of the party in the general election in 2014, the Gerindra party got a very significant vote when compared with the number of votes in the general election i…
This study highlights the Islamic political jurisprudence’s against violations of the general election campaign. The violations of the campaign com Islamic political jurisprudence’s perspective mitted by the perpetrators to elect the members of DPR and DPD is something that is familiar to the public. It means that there have so often a violation of the campaign during the legislative electi…
This paper addresses the issue of how the implementation of the 30% quota of the women legislative candidates in the electoral district 4 in Gresik in 2014 general election according to Undang-Undang No. 8 tahun 2012 and the political (siyasah) jurisprudence. The data are collected through interview and a study of the texts related to the problem. They are then analyzed using the political (siy…