Political Science

In the wake of the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election, concerns about misinformation traversing on social media have heightened. Since then, much of the public discourse has been on developing effective strategies to combat the spread of misinformation online. While several studies have focused on the effects of a mixed/hybrid regime of information channels on political participation and campaigns, we know little about how the existence of a hybrid media system exposes people to misinformation during an election cycle. Using a nationally representative survey administered during the 2019 Indonesian election (N=1,820), we find evidence for the prominence of traditional media as well as face-to-face discussions: political use of traditional media such as newspapers and TV as well as sharing of political information through face-to-face discussions are found to be positively associated with at least one measure of misinformation exposure. As for the social media communicative pathways, on...

Penelittian yang dilakukan oleh INCIS terkait masalah reformasi pelayan publik di Jakarta merupakan salah satu langkah untuk memperbaiki pelaksanaan fungsi negara sebagai pelayan masyarakat. Dalam tataran praktis dan akademik, buku ini akan melengkapi kajian-kajian yang sudah dilakukan oleh berbagai kalangan dalam rangka menganalisis berbagai permasalahan dalam pelayanan publik di Indoensia. Karen itu saya sangat menyambut baik terhadap hasil penelitian ini.

Buku bunga rampai ini mengelaborasi tentang berbagai fenomena pembiayaan pemilu di Indonesia dalam kurun waktu 2014-2018. Buku ini merupakan salah satu kontribusi penting dalam ilmu politik dan khususnya pemilu di Indonesia karena membicarakan tentang dana pemilu yang dikeluarkan dan dikelola oleh para peserta dan juga penyelenggara pemilu. This edited volume book elaborates on electoral financing phenomena in Indonesia from 2014-2018. This book contributes to contemporary Indonesian politics, especially on electoral studies because writers in this book discuss about electoral funds from candidates, party politics and also electoral management bodies.

Using pre- and post-election survey data, I find that, for most presidential elections between 2004 and 2019, being a supporter of the losing presidential candidates significantly increased the likelihood of disillusionment with the way democracy works. However, in 2019 specifically, democratic satisfaction decreased dramatically for all voters. The results of post-election surveys in 2019 indicated a change from previous post-election surveys, which had typically found that the successful conduct of elections produced increased satisfaction with democratic performance.

This article investigates differences in health precautions taken during the pandemic and the degree to which individuals had faith in the government’s response to Covid-19 in the early stages of the pandemic. Using a sample designed to be nationally representative as well as representative of three lockdown zones, we find that local social-distancing policies, social class, religion, and political partisanship all influenced how Indonesians experienced the pandemic and their perceptions of the government’s response. We found that fear levels and pandemic behavior are associated with religion as well as economic status. Fear levels are much higher among lowest-paid Indonesians and among Muslims outside of the capital city Jakarta, while non-Muslims reported greater levels of precaution-taking measures. Though among Islamic parties’ voters, the difference is less pronounced, there are notable partisan differences as stronger predictors of attitude and behavior during the pandemic whe...