Political Education Model for Beginner Female Voters among Students in Local Leaders Election of Serang City in 2018

Abstract

This study aims to formulate political education models to increase the political participation of beginner female voters in Indonesia. Nowadays political education is getting worse along with the lower public trust in democratic institutions such as political party. Political parties that cannot be separated from corruption, collusion and nepotism greatly undermine public trust in the current democratic system. For beginner female voters, the participation in local leader election/national election activities still feels uneasy so that it affects on the high floating mass in the implementation of local leader election /national election including the 2018 Local Leaders Election of Serang. The conclusion of this study shows that the inhibitor factor of the political participation in the beginner voters is political education factor which is still less intensive, especially from the political parties, whereas this is the responsibility of the cadre leaders, and the penetration of political education must be based on information technology and massive use of social media. The suggestion of this research is that the General Election Commission (KPU) as the main actor in the implementation election activities should maximize the socialization and the political education to the beginner voters using basis information technology and social media in order to there will be more intelligent voters so that the Democracy Index in Indonesia increases. Keywords—Beginner Female Voters, Millennial, Democracy.