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Violence tends to not only occur due to unconsolidated differences, but also used in political interests. Political opportunities for the emergence of violence tend to be open at the moment of elections. The DKI Jakarta regional election in 2017 was marked by the dimensions of direct violence which included clashes and beatings as well as dimensions of indirect violence which included hate speech, hate spin, intolerance, manipulative and discrimination. Violence that arises as a twist of hatred and offense does not come from a vacuum, but the Hate Spin Cherian George Concept argues that there is a mobilization of political entrepreneurs. Moreover, Clifford Geertz argues that the existence of identity factors contributes to the emergence of conflict or not. This study uses a qualitative method. As a result, this study assumes that political violence in the DKI Jakarta Election is not just a mobilization of political interests, but rather grows as an individual and communal awareness of the conditions that occur in DKI Jakarta.