Practice Of Political Money In Pilkades (Village Head Elections) In Tolutu Village, Tomini Sub-District, Bolaang Mongondow Selatan District

Abstract

The practice of money politics or money politics is not a new thing to discuss, bearing in mind that in almost all political contexts, both during the candidacy, campaign and direct elections, of course there is still an element of buying and selling votes for a position. In fact, this often happens in PILKADA (Regional Head Elections),PILEG (Legislative Member Election) and even up to PILKADES (Village Head Election) are not spared from the Practice of Money Politics . Tolutu village is one of the villages in the Tomini sub-district, Bolaang Mongondow south district which is not spared from the practice of political monye, this can be seen in community participation which depends on the amount of money or dowry given to the community during elections, no half-hearted amount of money enticed by the Paslon. It ranges from Rp . 150,000-300,000 per vote (person). Of course this is very injurious to democracy, where this can become a public disease that will increasingly undermine the mentality of society, how come they (the public) who are worthy and have the quality to lead are actually hampered by financial factors. Even though PILKADES (Village Head Election) should be an arena for the community to have a good democracy and produce leaders who are ready to bring change to their Beloved Village