Track: Case Studies

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze social capital associated with the implementation of general elections in Indonesia in 2019. The social capital in question is how the trust, network and norms held by the community, election participants, and election administrators in carrying out general elections based on honesty and justice. A hot issue that has developed in the community during the 2019 general elections in Indonesia is the impartiality or partiality of the election organizers, namely the General Election Commission of the Republic of Indonesia (KPU RI) and the General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu). As a result, many Indonesians doubt the performance of the Indonesian KPU and Bawaslu. Even stereotypes that appear in society can cause division or disintegration of the nation and this must be avoided. So a solution is needed that always prioritizes the value of togetherness, advances together, creates love, and nurtures one another among the community, election participants, and election organizers so that there is no division in society.