PARTISIPASI POLITIK MASYARAKAT KECAMATAN BELITANG HULU PADA PEMILIHAN KEPALA DAERAH DI KABUPATEN SEKADAU TAHUN 2010

Abstract

The writing of this article aims to provide an understanding of community participation in the implementation of regional head election (Elections) directly in Sekadau Regency in 2010 brings changes for the process of democratization at the local level, especially the increased participation of community in district politics Belitang upstream. Both in terms of quality as well as quantity of politics in the election. Increased public participation in district Belitang Upstream is quite interesting to people because of the greatly scrutinized, plays an active role in politics. The methods used in this research is descriptive-qualitative method. As for the data retrieval is performed with in-depth interviews. The result of this research was known that the public participation in sub-district belitang hulu in the district sekadau 2010 visible direct involvement in the participation of the people in the process of activities participation voting (votes in the polling stations TPS ), granting votes in the campaign, the activity of communal, contact individuals

Keywords: Democracy, Political Participation, Election