Politik Penyelenggaraan Pemilu:Marginalisasi Politik Panwaslu di Kabupaten Banyumas

Ahmad Rofik, Purwo Santoso

2016 | Tesis | Politik dan Pemerintahan

ABSTRACT This research analyses the marginalization of Election Supervisory Commissions (Panitia Pengawas Pemilihan Umum, known as Panwaslu) for the 2004 and 2009 legislative general elections in Banyumas Regency. The existence of Panwaslu was expected to be able to control the whole general election processes and handle every general election violations. Panwaslu should be placed as an institution with strategic roles in enforcing law and general election rules and regulations. By enforcing law and general election rules and regulations, it will create a clean and qualified election that is a free, honest, fair and democratic general election which can support democracy consolidation in Indonesia. This research discovers some important findings. First, the fact shows that Panwaslu is in marginal position so that they can’t act optimally in monitoring the election and in responding each general elections violation maximally. Second, these minor roles of Panwaslu is a concrete act of “political externalization of general election supervisory” from the ruling political parties’ politicians in throwing their moral and political responsibilities in guiding and supervising the elections, and thus the elections is merely becoming a political arena in gaining power. Third, the political externalization of general election supervisory is a structured action in political structure of general elections providence has put Panwaslu in minor position, as in the organization of general election political design, which is the legal guide that is the rules and regulations of general elections. Panwaslu marginalization are in the institutional structure, functions and authorities, and also in supervisory mechanism and in managing the elections violations. Fourth, the political design of elections management was a legal product and at the same time, the design was a political product that being composed by the politicians of the ruling parties in Legislative (DPR). These politicians’ political interests were the actors behind the political design of elections management who took “the political benefits” from the general elections political design that designed to eliminate optimum elections supervisory and enforcing the law, and maximizing general elections rules and regulations. Panwaslu in the effort of law enforcements and general elections rules and regulations is facing conflicts and criminalization challenges from general elections contestants (the politicians from political parties, also as the candidate of the legislative members). Panwaslu was also café to face to have conflict with the general elections officers, among Banyumas General Elections Commission (Komisi Pemilihan Umum, known as KPU), they had clashed among themselves about general elections rules and regulations. Panwaslu authorities easily abandon by the general elections contestants and KPU. The consequences are that there is no law enforcement and maximum general elections rules and regulations. These xiv

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