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The Decline of Political Ideology in Indonesia: Political Cleavage among Political Parties dealing with the 2019 Electoral Threshold
Ridho Al-Hamdi

Department of Government Affairs and Administration, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta


Abstract

This paper examines the response of Indonesian political parties in dealing with the 2019 electoral threshold, whether parliamentary threshold or presidential threshold. Therefore, this paper is written for twofold main objective, to discern the development of political ideology in Indonesia in post New Order regime and to identify the current political cleavage among political parties particularly between Islam and secular or major parties vs small parties. Methodologically, it is a qualitative research and the in depth interview and online news collection are applied as the data gathering techniques. The research finding demonstrates that the political ideology in recent Indonesia is waning and towards to the end of ideology. If it is so, it can harm the party system in Indonesia and will be what so called depoliticization of party because of the lack of people trust. It can be shown by some evidence. First, the party response to the electoral threshold issues is no longer considering ideological and organizational motives, but because of pragmatic goals. Second, in term of responding the 2019 electoral threshold, a number of Islamist parties are in one coalition with secular parties. Likewise, small parties have a same position with major parties in coping with these issues. Consequently, the political cleavage is hazy and meaningless.

Keywords: political ideology, political parties, electoral threshold, political cleavage

Topic: International Symposium on Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Religious Studies

Link: https://ifory.id/abstract/GKtEaAY2cmNg

Conference: The 3rd International Conference on Sustainability and Innovation (ICoSI 2019)

Plain Format | Corresponding Author (Ridho Al-Hamdi)

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