Money Politics and Vote Brokers
“Money politics” was still a threat in the implementation of the third volume of simultaneous regional head elections. Its number was increasing ahead of polling day.
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“Money politics” was still a threat in the implementation of the third volume of simultaneous regional head elections. Its number was increasing ahead of polling day.
Money politics is an Indonesian term to describe all kinds of corrupt behavior in general elections, from political corruption to clientelism and from vote-buying to fraud (Daniel Bumke: 2001). In regional elections, money politics is associated with buying and selling votes. Article 73 Paragraph (1) of Law No. 10/2016 explains that candidates and/or campaign teams are prohibited from promising and/or providing money or other goods to influence election organizers and/or voters.