Women Recruitment in Winning Party 2019 Election for DPR RI Seats; PDIP Case Study
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https://doi.org/10.56294/saludcyt20251766Keywords:
Political recruitment, Women in Politics, PDIPAbstract
Only 26 women or 20,15 % of the total 129 seats in the Indonesian House of Representatives were obtained by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), indicating that PDIP is not yet serious about recruiting women in the 2019 election. In fact, PDIP is the winning party in the 2019 election and its general chair, Megawati Soekarno Putri, is a woman who holds the prerogative in her party who determines the attitude and policies in each nomination of DPR members. This is the purpose of this study, namely to find out why PDIP has not been able to present 30% of women in the DPR RI in the 2019 election and how the nomination of women in PDIP for DPR RI seats has still not been able to realize women's representation in the DPR RI as a result of the 2019 election. Using the perspective of Pippa Norris' political recruitment theory and qualitative methods with data from interviews, documents and literature reviews, this study found that there were the most prominent internal party reasons, namely Megawati as the center and top of the selector implementing an elite nomination recruitment strategy based on considerations of personal loyalty and party loyalty requirements that are identical to Soekarno's political teachings, in addition to still requiring political capital, especially networks and financial capabilities, as well as motivation requirements, especially women who come from the nuclear family of loyal party cadres. With these requirements, women recruited by PDIP are still limited.
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