The Role of General Election Commission (KPU) in Increasing Voters’ Participation in Langkat, Medan, Indonesia

Abstract

Voter participation in elections is one of the benchmarks of the success of political development. The high level of voter participation will indicate the success of the elections and the low voter participation will indicate the failure of the election. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the participation of the voters as the responsibility of the KPU. Therefore, the KPU makes an effort to increase voter participation by conducting election socialization in Langkat Regency. The socialization aims to provide and disseminate information on elections. The effort is certainly to increase voter participation in the election. From this research is done with the aim to know the role of Election Commission Langkat in order to increase voter participation. The method used in this research is descriptive research method with qualitative approach. Analysis of the whole data is done with summarize data that is selecting data, simplified, and taken the main meaning (essence). Based on measurement of effectiveness of election socialization such as; achievement of objectives, procedures, resources, budgets, facilities, infrastructure and integration or cooperation with other organizations. Generated that socialization of election conducted by Langkat Regency KPU not yet effective where achievement of objective, procedure, budget, infrastructure and integration not effective and utilization of resources and facilities running effectively. So the result of this research is the role of Election Commission Langkat in order to increase the voters have not been maximized. With low voter participation rate around 60% obtained by data processing KPU Langkat Regency.

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“…While political socialization aims to provide political education. This is in line with the opinion of Prihatmoko, forming and fostering political personality and political awareness, as well as people's political participation [3].…”

“…According to Djuyandi, socialization is generally understood as a learning process. This condition occurs because basically people will never be satisfied to learn something that has not been known, such as learning about roles, norms and values to adapt with the social environment [3].…”

“…Election socialization includes formal socialization. According to Syarbaini, formal socialization, namely socialization carried out through authorized institutions according to state regulations or through institutions established according to applicable laws and government regulations [3]. While political socialization aims to provide political education.…”

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“…Socialization is a learning process for someone to understand and have an awareness of the role to act appropriately in society. According to Djuyandi and Amrizalsaid socializationis generally understood as a learning process, this condition occurs because people will never be satisfied to learn something that has not been known, such as learning about roles, norms and values to adapt with the social environment [1], [2]. While political socialization aims to provide political education, which according to Prihatmoko "forming and fostering political personality and political awareness, as well as people's political participation" [3].…”

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“…This can already be said as participation in a political context (Miriam, 2008). Meanwhile, Amrizal et al (2018) stated that political participation is the involvement of self, mental, thoughts and emotions or feelings of a person from various levels of political activity such as election activities of state leaders through elections as a form of awareness and responsibility of a person against government regulations or policies. The participation of the people in the general election is by participating in the implementation of the general election to achieve the goals of the nation and hasten in democracy.…”