People's Political Participation in Elections Regional Head and Deputy Head of Regional Direct (Case Study Using the Voter no vote in Bandung Regency Direct Election)

Elections Regional Head and Vice Head of Region (election) Direct, as mandated by the constitution, was first implemented in June of 2005 in several Indonesian Region. Regency Bandung on October 22, 2005 with the number of 2,781,320 registered voters conducted Election Regent and Vice Regent of the first Direct after a local district / city in West Java in the same year.

Along with the domain name is no longer the election is submitted to the Regional Representatives Council (DPRD), but directly elected by the people as the owner of sovereignty, is not directly proportional to the height of political participation of the people. People's political participation in elections Regent and Vice Regent of Bandung, which uses a vote of 1,788,001 valid votes (64.29%), invalid votes by 118,057 (4.24%) and that do not use voting rights (voting) of 875,262 (31.47%) of the number of registered voters. Regency Bandung into consideration the study of political participation of the people in the local elections and vice regional head straight, which is devoted to a registered voter but do not use the vote, because no studies election results Regent and Vice Regent of Bandung with the focus of interet on the people in ketidakterlibatan use the vote.

By photographing voters who do not use these voting rights, with consideration of aspects of theoretical, methodological and empirical, the results of these studies showed that levels of society to withdraw from important events direct election of the political process for pragmatic reasons, namely to work in factories, because the factory did not dismiss; purely practical purposes, because the election is considered a waste of time and can not be felt directly by the voters. As for political reasons, namely the decline of public confidence in democratic institutions (such as political parties, parliaments and governments), will not change the situation better life, so the best choice not to vote in elections as part of the act of "punishment" voters on the performance of political parties , parliament and government.

However, voters who do not use the vote did not become a political letting all stakeholders, it must find a solution to give confidence "guarantees" of politics in improving people's welfare.**