Muslims are the largest part of Indonesian society, but in the history of elections,Islamic political parties have never won. The nationalist party tended to be a strong party, whereas religion-based party tend to be a weak party. This study aims to analyze how the influence of religion values on voting behavior during legislative elections in the Central Java. This study was conducted in 10 el…
This article aims at describing the use of religious symbols during the election of the head of the city of Batam in 2006. Using a qualitative approach, this study found several forms in which religious symbols were used by each pair of candidates to win the vote, such as the expression of religious greetings and idioms during public campaigns, the distribution of religious-nuanced pamphlets, a…
Since the enactment of the Law No. 32/2004 on local government, direct executive elections have been conducted in all regions in Indonesia. This has transfered the mandate of electing heads of local executive governments [governors, regents and mayors] from political elites, i.e. members of local parliaments, to the general people. This change has affected the way leader candidates use to gain …
In this article, the author presents the results of the research on the use of religious symbols during the election of the governor of Lampung held in 2008. It focuses on three main questions: 1)forms of religious symbols used by candidates for governatorial office during their campaigns; 2)motifs of such a use of religious symbols; and 3)public perceptions on the use of religious symbols by g…
Religion continues to become a political resource in Indonesian politics. This has become more noticiable during the process of local elections. This article presents the results of the study on the use religious symbols during the election of the major [walikota] of the City of Jambi, Province of Jambi, held in 2008. The study focuses on two questions: 1)what are types of religious symbols use…
In Indonesia religion plays an important role in electoral proceses both at the national and local levels. Focusing on the case of gubernatorial election in the province of North Sumatera, Indonesia, held in April 2008, this article examines the use of religious issues by gubernatorial candidates during their electoral campaigns. The author classifies types of the use of religious issues into f…
The phenomena of general election in 2009 shows that political marketing is an important part of winning the competition. This marketing approach has been transparently used since 1999 and continued to 2004. However, its more intesive use could be seen in the last general election in 2009. It was probablythe era of an image industry whichforce an individual and a party to construct their best i…
Some procedures can be used for selecting independent variables, one of them is the procedure of all possible regression with robust Cp [RCp] criterion. This statistic is not sensitive with multicolinerity in model and outlier residuals. The aim of this article is to investigate the use of RCp criterion in selecting independent variables. The result of the simulation experimental data shoes tha…
The phenomena of general election in 2009 shows that political marketing is an important part of winning the competition. This marketing approach has been transparently used since 1999 and continued to 2004. However, its more intensive use could be seen in the last general election in 2009. It was probably the era of an image industry which force an individual and a party to construct their bes…