PARTISIPASI POLITIK VIRTUAL PADA PEMILIHAN KEPALA DAERAH PROVINSI RIAU TAHUN 2018 (STUDI PARTISIPASI POLITIK MELALUI FACEBOOK)

Abstract

The transformation of political participation by using Facebook has occurred in the Regional Head Elections in Riau Province in 2018 as evidenced by the rules of the General Election Commission related to campaigns on social media namely Riau Provincial KPU Decree Number: 88/HK.03.1-Kpt/14/Prov/X/2017. Although there has been virtual political participation through Facebook, there are candidates who have high followers, and some who are low. Other than that, there are still many hoaxes in politics on Facebook. This research is a descriptive study using a quantitative approach. The data collection technique in this study used online survey techniques by taking a sample of 155 people from Syamsuar-Edy Nasution’s Facebook followers and Lukman Edy-Hardianto’s Facebook's followers. Analysis of the data used is quantitative analysis. The results of the study concluded that respondents from the Syamsuar-Edy’s Facebook followers on their level of virtual political participation on Facebook were included in the active category with recapitulation of an average score of 1.68 and respondents from Lukman Edy-Hardianto (Riau Bangkit)’s Facebook followers level of virtual political participation on Facebook is included in the fairly active category with recapitulation of an average score of 1.24. The factors that encourage are (1) widespread government involvement in social, economic and cultural affairs and (2) modernization. Then the inhibiting factors can be seen from technical, sociological and rational choices.

Keywords: Virtual Political Participation, Election of Regional Heads, Facebook.