Jurnal Politik Indonesia (Indonesian Journal of Politics)

Analysis of the implementation of Political Party Information Systems (SIPOL) from a democratic perspective in the 2019 and 2024 General Elections

2025-10-02T14:18:33+07:00

This study aims to examine the aspects of democratic values on the implementation of the SIPOL policy implemented by the KPU to facilitate the process of registration and verification of political parties as candidates for the 2019 and 2024 elections. The method of this writing is qualitative in the form of a library research by using various literature that supports the topic of discussion. Furthermore, the classification of various information collected from various literature sources is carried out. Then it is researched and analyzed qualitatively descriptively, the relationship between data information between one another, so that it can be assembled into a coherent writing. SIPOL as a system that is still relatively new, in its implementation there are several weaknesses that need to be considered and improved for better performance. In the 2019 elections, issues such as technical, validation/verification, and data manipulation occurred a lot. Meanwhile, in the 2024 elections, the central problems were legal/regulatory issues, transparency, and data manipulation, which also dominated. Although, there are a number of these problems, on the one hand, SIPOL turns out to be able to support democratic values. As Robert A. Dahl's view, especially in the aspect of democratic values which emphasizes that an official must be elected through careful and integrity elections, and there must be public freedom in accessing information sources. On the one hand, SIPOL can guarantee the principle of election integrity as a condition for the establishment of democratic values, which is measured on four indicators, namely transparent, honest, accurate and accountable.

Political science, science, and professionalization: Indonesia and its development

2025-09-02T14:02:24+07:00

Political science, as a developing discipline, continues to spark debates regarding its scientific foundations. Its expansion into professional and practical domains has yet to establish universally applied standards. This article discusses the dynamics and development of political science by analyzing its scientific basis, areas of study, and historical trajectory. More specifically, it highlights the discipline’s growth in Indonesia. As a relatively young field of study, its development in the democratic era offers hope for the consolidation of political science as a discipline with clearer standards, contributions, and directions for advancement that are connected to global dynamics.

The Prabowo–Gibran 2024 Election campaign strategy from Tan Malaka’s Madilog perspective

2025-08-27T17:13:07+07:00

This study analyzes the campaign strategy of Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the 2024 presidential election through Tan Malaka’s Madilog philosophical framework, aiming to uncover fundamental contradictions between political rationality and contemporary mysticism in Indonesian democracy. By employing a philosophical-critical approach and a hermeneutic method, this research uses the three pillars of Madilog (Materialism, Dialectics, and Logic) as tools for systematic analysis of modern electoral phenomena. The findings reveal that the pair’s electoral success was achieved through strategies diametrically opposed to Madilog’s principles: substantive policy has been replaced by symbolic manipulation, advanced technology is used to perpetuate political irrationality, and a “modern mystical logic” dominates, obscuring the critical thinking of the masses. Paradoxically, the public’s skeptical response to the campaign promises reflects an intuitive application of Madilog’s principles by society, highlighting a gap between the people’s critical awareness and the quality of political discourse among the elite.

Keywords: Madilog; Political Communication; campaign; electoral rationality; Prabowo-Gibran

Explicating the de-bureaucratization of African public sector in the 21st century globalized world

2025-09-24T14:08:32+07:00

The objective of the paper is to assess the processes, methods, and challenges of de-bureaucratization of the public sector in Africa This study adopted historical approach to administrative research and used secondary sources of information. The study observed that under-development of state bureaucracy arose from the legacy of authoritarian nature of colonial rule, unethical behavior of public servants, skewed recruitment process, lack of competition among others. The paper concludes that if right strategies such as adequate funding of privatized organizations, technological development, good governance, itemization, and right pursuance of developmental agenda by the state favorable industrial policy environment, the public sector dynamism will be attained.

Child labour and sexual exploitation in Bangladesh: Analysis of government failure to protect children's rights within the constitutional framework

2025-11-03T15:48:40+07:00

In the context of the constitution and in its execution, the state is now required to satisfy the rights of its citizens, particularly the rights of children. Nonetheless, many nations around the world continue to fail to fully enforce these rights, which would lead to social discontent. Bangladesh is one of these nations, with a high prevalence of abuses of children's rights. With an emphasis on child labor, sexual exploitation, and the government's policy reaction, this study uses a qualitative research approach and a thorough literature analysis to investigate child rights abuses in Bangladesh. Peer-reviewed scholarly journals, official government publications, and reports from international organizations were among the many secondary sources from which the data were collected. Despite the existing legal and constitutional framework for protecting children's rights, child labour and sexual exploitation still happens regularly. It is found that the root causes of these phenomenon are poverty and religio-cultural values in Bangladesh’s society. Thus addressing these problems could help to further make existing laws to protect children’s rights even more systemic.

YouTube as digital public sphere: Controversary over Indonesia’s Military Reform Law

2025-11-03T15:49:19+07:00

The issue of revising the TNI Law has been considered an offense against the principles of democracy and civil supremacy, triggering fears of the military's dual function (including involvement in socio-political affairs), as seen during Suharto's New Order era. This research aims to analyze the pros and cons of the audience of the Bocor Alus Politik YouTube channel towards the Revision of the Indonesian National Army Law (RUU TNI) through the comments of the content titled "Actors & Lobbies behind the Revision of the TNI Law". This research employs a quantitative approach, utilizing a sentiment analysis method to classify netizen comments. The research data consisted of 4,209 comments collected from the YouTube content. The analysis results indicate dominance of positive sentiment (3,694 comments) over negative sentiment (512 comments), with an accuracy rate of 86.20%. The positive group used appreciative words such as "support", "brave", and "media", which showed support for civil supremacy and independent media. Meanwhile, the negative group employs diction that delegitimizes the media, using words such as "stooge" and "slander", reflecting skepticism towards media objectivity and support for military involvement in the civilian sector. This research demonstrates that YouTube serves as a digital deliberation arena, showing the political polarization of Indonesian society regarding civil-military relations.