Indonesia Conference Directory

The demand for clean elections is getting stronger in many countries, no exception in Indonesia. One of the demands is the availability of candidates for legislative who have a clean track record.The entry of ex-corruptors as members of the legislature will certainly strengthen peoples distrust of parliament. To end all bad developments, the concept of electoral reform is very important. As an organization between state and society, it is very possible for civil society to make changes in the fight for the clean election demands. Civil Society in the context of Indonesia generally manifests itself in a non-governmental organization, namely an organization whose domain is separate from the State and business sector, which carries the mission of strengthening and empowering people outside the State and the private sector. Various civil society organizations formed a coalition network formed under the name of the Civil Society Coalition for clean elections, which then aimed to guard clean elections. The demand from the Civil Society Coalition is to reject ex-corruptors to run for legislative members candidate with a petition "koruptor kok nyaleg". In fighting for its demands, the coalition carries out an Advocacy role, influencing what should be a public policy in this case the KPU Regulation Number 20 Year 2018 about the candidacy of Legislative Members. Civil Society Coalitions convey aspirations to elements that can make direct decisions and actively play a role in advocating by building constructive relationships with policy makers in order to build solutions to problems or influence policies that will be decided. in terms of taking advantage of political opportunities, the challenges and responses of Civil Society in post-reform political structures are seen in two political arenas: policy making and electoral politics. To obtain data related to the political activities of civil society in the realm of regulation making and the political participation of civil society actors in elections, this research uses process tracking methods.