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Presidential Election in Indonesia is the practice of Indonesian democracy that become interesting to be discussed among the public. Especially for women. The research objective is to obtain a pattern of women in participatory communication through the use of Facebook in the Presidential Election of the Republic of Indonesia in 2019. This research used Participatory Communication theory in the concept of Democracy. This is a descriptive qualitative research with constructivism paradigm and the method of Netnography. In this study the data was collected through interviews and observing womens message content on Facebook walls; women who uploading their messages on Facebook in the form of direct uploads, re-uploading of other peoples posts (re-post), or comments in both verbal and nonverbal forms. While the subjects in this study are academic women, women of legislative candidates, and non-academics women who were not legislative candidates from September 2018 to January 2019. The results of the research are; first, volunteer women from both academics and non-academics (housewives) who become practical political actors with marketer patterns; and second, for candidates in the legislature who are women, they are political actors who make Facebook as a channel for them with the aim of increasing peoples choice for them.