{"title":"Communication Deficit and Monetization of Political Contests at the Electoral Commission of Ghana","authors":"Shadrack Bentil, E. P. Adu","doi":"10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.1344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.1344","url":null,"abstract":"The current state of the office of the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana can be couched as a bleeding pillar in Ghana’s electoral democracy pending crisis. In spite of the numerous reform measures undertaken by the EC to improve the quality delivery of its constitutional mandate, communication deficit and the increasing monetization of parliamentary and presidential contestation poses a serious threat to broader participation and competition in Ghana's future electoral fortune. Thus, the objective of the paper was to interrogate the issues of communication inefficiencies and monetization of political contestations by the Electoral Commission of Ghana and proffer pragmatic solutions that can be taken into consideration in years ahead due to the past and recent experiences of neighbouring countries within the sub-region. The study employed the qualitative research methodology to elicit responses from 12 experts in the field of elections. Apart from the primary data generated from the field, secondary sources were consulted to situate the discussion in the existing debate in the literature. The findings of the study revealed that monetization of the political contest has negative implications for a competitive political contest--disqualification of citizens with capable minds from contesting in a multi-party democracy) whilst communication deficit was found to be deepening public distrust in the Electoral Commission of Ghana. The study, therefore, recommended among others the creation of a three-man office solely responsible for managing the commission's website and other electronic outlets, and the immediate activation and implementation of the provision in the 2020 Strategic Plan of the Electoral Commission which has remained dormant after 2016 elections.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73941104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Salahudin, Vissanu Zumitzavan, Achmad Nurmandi, T. Sulistyaningsih, Kisman Karinda
{"title":"The Participatory and Responsiveness of Local Budget Policy in Malang, Indonesia","authors":"S. Salahudin, Vissanu Zumitzavan, Achmad Nurmandi, T. Sulistyaningsih, Kisman Karinda","doi":"10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.1720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.1720","url":null,"abstract":"Since political reform in 1998, the Indonesian government has decentralized governance practices in order to provide a space for local governments to develop the local potential of each region. Consequently, the local government should be responsive to people’s needs and more accountable for regional development. Therefore, local governments should be willing to involve local citizens in the public policy-making process. On the other side, local communities should actively engage in development processes, particularly in budget policy planning. This article reports on a study to determine to what extent the local government is responsive and accountable to the local citizens in Malang Municipality in Indonesia. A qualitative approach was applied to the process of data collection and data analysis. The results show that the local government has low responsiveness and accountability to local citizen’s needs and local preferences. The findings reveal a lack of willingness on the part of local government to involve local citizens and civic groups in budget planning, and elected officials demonstrate little responsibility in arranging budget policy support to achieve social welfare, one of the main points of decentralization. These findings show that central government should pay more attention to improving the awareness of local governments and the capacity of local communities so that decentralization may be supported.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"516 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77113639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combatting Slums, Suistaining Poverty: Dynamic Urban Governance in Makassar, Indonesia","authors":"A. Prianto, A. A. Amalia","doi":"10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.2008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.2008","url":null,"abstract":"Urban livelihood asset is an accumulation of labor capital and financial capital. The existence of a slum area in the coastal area of Untia with an area of 7.13 ha of 740.10 ha of the total slum area in the city of Makassar. This area is a potential strategic accumulation of livelihoods in the human capital, institutional, physical, financial and environmental resources, but on the other hand also has a high level of vulnerability. This study aims to obtain an empirical situation regarding the lives of poor people in the slums of the Untia coastal area, Makassar City. The socio-economic conditions of the community, the use of space, the ownership status of land and buildings, the condition of infrastructure and facilities of settlements in coastal slums as a basis for the reconstruction of coastal slums handling models based on dynamic governance. The findings show that urban slum in coastal areas are very rapidly growing. Problems that continue along with various programs carried out by the government. All programs by the state and non-state have been carried out in an effort to eradicate slum areas, but in fact the poverty rate in the region continues to increase. Managing a slums settlement program can use a dynamic governance framework: thinking ahead, thinking again, and thinking across. All of these strategies have been internalized of digital information and communication technology.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83271424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of ICT in Addressing Corruption Across Political Regimes","authors":"Mergen Dyussenov","doi":"10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.1508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.1508","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reviews existing literature on the role of the internet in addressing corruption by breaking it down into instrumental, important, and critical roles, across two types of political regimes – (semi-)authoritarian and democracies. It analyzes the key resources and strategies utilized by governments and activists across these regimes, and looks into the common themes that emerge as a result of analyzing literature sources, i.e. the notion of crisis, lack of a single accepted definition of corruption across nations, factors found to positively correlate with reduced corruption, and the evolving nature of the internet. The paper finds that neither regime can be perfectly immune against mass-scale protests caused by dissatisfaction with worsening corruption. However, the regimes differ in the nature of protests, with semi-authoritarian regimes witnessing more violent and aggressive uprisings fueled by long-accumulated social disappointment with previous repressive regimes than across much of democracies.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78514745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborating Local Government Agencies to Prevention Adolescent Reproductive Health in Makassar, Indonesia","authors":"A. Hadna, Nasrulhaq Nasrulhaq","doi":"10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26618/OJIP.V9I1.2025","url":null,"abstract":"Collaboration is an approach and concept of managing public policy in Makassar, Indonesia. Recently, the municipality of Makassar has capitalized on the collaboration of local government agencies regarding public affairs to prevent issues of Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH). ARH is a strategic issue for local government so that it is solved collaboratively. The collaborating governmental organization comprises the Department of Education, Health, Family Planning, and all of the Urban Villages. This research employed a qualitative method focusing on the analysis of collaborative phenomena of local government agencies in Generation Planning Program through Adolescent Counseling Information Center (ACIC) and Adolescent Families Development (AFD) in Makassar. Data were obtained and analyzed in an orderly and structured manner with general qualitative approach. Based on the field research, the local government agencies collaborate in two ways. The first collaboration deals with the sectoral term which is the involvement of the government agencies related to adolescent reproductive health policy. The second collaboration deals with the regional term including the involvement of the Sub-District and Urban Villages in Makassar as grassroots bureaucracy. Collaborative themes and relations are the main findings in this article. An interesting theme in the idea of collaboration is mutual interdependence, while an exciting theme in the implementation of collaborative action is joint interaction. Organizational relationships in collaboration between local government agencies are coordination, consolidation, consultation, and command. This study concluded that sectoral and regional collaboration is proper in bringing a solution to public health affairs that are very complex.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91056904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politik Patronase dan Klientelisme Purnawirawan Tni Pada Pemilu Legislatif","authors":"Teguh Anggoro","doi":"10.24905/JIP.V4I1.1242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24905/JIP.V4I1.1242","url":null,"abstract":"Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh maraknya purnawiran TNI yang menjadi Caleg di DPRD KotaBanjar, Jawa Barat. Pola patronase dan klientelisme masih menjadi idola para purnawirawan untukmendulang suara. Mereka masih terjebak pada pola patronase dan klientelisme yang banyakdimainkan oleh politisi sipil lainnya. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat sejauhmana pola patronase dan klintalisme yang dijalankan oleh purnawirawan TNI dalammemenangkan pemilu legislatif di Kota Banjar Jawa Barat. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Kota BanjarProvinsi Jawa Barat, dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Penelitian ini akan menggalilebih jauh terhadap fenomena patronase dan klientelisme yang dilakukan purnawirawan. Hasilpenelitian menunjukan, dijalankannnya pola patronase dan klientelisme oleh para purnawirawan.Pola patronase sebatas pada pemberian pribadi (individual gift) dan politik ‘gentong babi’ (porkbarrel). Selain pola patronase, pola klintelisme juga masih menjadi idola mereka untuk memobilisasimasssa pada setiap sosialisasi/kampanye.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91256215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative Government dalam Mewujudkan Inovasi Pelayanan","authors":"Widuri Wulandari, Suranto, E. Purnomo","doi":"10.24905/jip.4.1.2019.13-28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24905/jip.4.1.2019.13-28","url":null,"abstract":"Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis implementasi inovasi pelayanan publik yang digagas oleh Kecamatan Sleman bersama dengan Kelompok Informasi Masyarakat (KIM). Inovasi pelayanan publik yang dijalankan oleh Kecamatan Sleman dengan KIM disebut dengan Sunmor Sembada Minggu Pahing (SSMP). Penelitian ini menggunakan teori kinerja birokrasi dalam menjalankan pelayanan publik dan ditambahkan dengan teori faktor keberhasilan implementasi kebijakan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Temuan bahwa implementasi kegiatan Sunmor Sembada Minggu Pahing di Kecamatan Sleman belum berjalan optimal. Pelaksana lebih fokus dalam bidang ekonomi dan budaya yaitu mempromosikan UMKM dan kelompok seni. Sedangkan bidang pendidikan, kunjungan ke Pepusda masih kurang efektif. Namun dilihat dari kualitas layanan, masyarakat merasa puas dengan adanya kegiatan tersebut. Faktor yang mempengaruhi keberhasilan dari kegiatan ini yaitu, sumber dayamanusia, disposisi dan struktur birokrasi.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78633464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Akuntabilitas Dana Desa (Kajian Tentang Akuntabilitas Dana Desa Di Kecamatan Masalembu, Kabupaten Sumenep)","authors":"Haniah Hanafie, A. Nugraha, M. Huda","doi":"10.24905/JIP.V4I1.1202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24905/JIP.V4I1.1202","url":null,"abstract":"Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan akuntabilitas (pertanggungjawaban) Dana Desa pada Pemerintahan Desa. Pendekatan penelitian bersifat kualitatif. Wawancara, telaah dokumen dan observasi digunakan sebagai teknik pengambilan data. Lokasi penelitian di empat desa di Kecamatan Masalembu, Kabupaten Sumenep, Provinsi Jawa Timur. Deskriptif Analisis digunakan sebagai teknik analisis data dan didukung enam tahapan prosedur pengolahan data. Teori akuntabilitas digunakan sebagai pisau analisis dalam penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Akuntabilitas Dana Desa di Kecamatan Masalembu, dilihat dari aspek Keuangan, Manfaat dan Prosedur belum dilaksanakan sebagaimana mestinya","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83781055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analisis Politik Milenial : Persepsi Siswa SMA Terhadap Dinamika Politik Pada PEMILU 2019 di Indonesia","authors":"Mulkanur Rohim, Amika Wardana","doi":"10.24905/JIP.4.1.2019.47-63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24905/JIP.4.1.2019.47-63","url":null,"abstract":"Generasi milenial pada analisis politik, memiliki empat sumber dalam membentuk persepsi politiknya yaitu media sosial, keluarga, teman dan sekolah. Milenial direpresentasikan pada siswa SMA dengan sampel Siswa SMA di Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan grounded theory. Hasilnya pembahasan isu politik dilakukan dengan diskusi, perdebatan dan akses informasi. Dari isu politik tersebut membentuk persepsi pada individu yang melalui tahapan seleksi, interpretasi dan berakhir pada Pembulatan. Namun persepsi yang terbentuk bukan terpaku pada isu politik yang dibahas tetapi lebih pada sosialisasi yang sudah diterima individu sebelumnya. Oleh karena itu media sosial sebagai sumber informasi utama sekarang ini hanyalah sebagai penegas pada persepsi yang sudah terbentuk atau sebagai pembahasan kontradiksi pada persepsi yang sudah terbentuk.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"30 8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73702509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative Government Dalam Mewujudkan Inovasi Pelayanan Publik","authors":"Widuri Wulandari, S. Suranto, E. Purnomo","doi":"10.24905/JIP.V4I1.1018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24905/JIP.V4I1.1018","url":null,"abstract":"Sleman District along with the Community Information Group (KIM) created an innovation called Sunmor Sembada Minggu Pahing. Sunmor Sembada Minggu Pahing Innovation is an activity to solve three main problems that exist in Sleman District, namely in the fields of economy, culture, and education. This innovation is included in the TOP 99 Public Service Innovation 2017. The purpose of this study is to find out how the implementation of the integrated service innovation Sunmor Sembada Minggu Pahing. The method used in this study is qualitative. The implementation of Sunmor activities is very effective in the economic and cultural fields and has a positive impact on SMEs and art groups in Sleman District. People feel satisfied with the existence of these innovations. However, the implementation of these innovation activities has not been fully implemented optimally. Factors that influence the success of this activity are human resources, disposition, and bureaucratic structure.","PeriodicalId":40252,"journal":{"name":"Otoritas-Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90039080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}