Research Article
Party’s Cultural Commodification: The Unelected Executive Candidates from Islam Affiliated Parties in Indonesia’s Local Election on Covid-19 Pandemic Situation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-9-2021.2315571, author={Retno Andriati and Irwan Abdullah and Claudia Anridho}, title={Party’s Cultural Commodification: The Unelected Executive Candidates from Islam Affiliated Parties in Indonesia’s Local Election on Covid-19 Pandemic Situation}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Democracy and Social Transformation, ICON-DEMOST 2021, September 15, 2021, Semarang, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICON-DEMOST}, year={2022}, month={2}, keywords={unelected executive candidates; party’s cultural commodification; islam-affiliated parties; ethnocentrism; economic interest; covid-19; money politics}, doi={10.4108/eai.15-9-2021.2315571} }- Retno Andriati
Irwan Abdullah
Claudia Anridho
Year: 2022
Party’s Cultural Commodification: The Unelected Executive Candidates from Islam Affiliated Parties in Indonesia’s Local Election on Covid-19 Pandemic Situation
ICON-DEMOST
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-9-2021.2315571
Abstract
This study emphasizes the forms of the unelected executive candidate from Islam-affiliated parties and what kind of commodification is influenced to their defeat in the election, especially in the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Another point is how are the implications toward their defeat to society’s economic and political condition. This qualitative study looked for the data by observation from preparation-activity to the day of Regent election and by in-depth interviews to the members of Islam affiliated parties, the members of the campaign team, the executive candidates, and the voters. This is mainly because of the work-culture commodification in which the district-level party’s leader was negotiated with other parties. The reasons for this kind of commodification are because of: (1) The future candidate which is family member of the districtlevel party’s leader (mentioned as putra pangeran) was not supported by the chairman; (2) Economic-business interest for the future of their family; and (3) Money politics which they gave more money to the voters than to their political opposition’ party. The implication is the Islam-affiliated party did not give full support for their executive candidates to be elected. This situation also made society feels so disappointed because they hope for a better new local government that can give a better future for society.