he Role of Communication in Improving Community Political Participation

Abstract

This study aims to determine the factors that influence the level of public political participation in the general election of the Regional Head of Kubu Raya Regency in 2013. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative. The research subjects or informants in this study were essential informants, principal informants, and key informants. Two sources of data were used in this study, namely primary and secondary data. The results of the study indicate that there are five types of factors that influence political participation: 1) a factor that stimulates participation, the emergence of the influence of someone who wants to contribute to political life; 2) the figure popularity factor, indirectly informants automatically choose a partner they already know; 3) factors of personal characteristics of voters, approach forms the personal characteristics of an individual included in the character of the electorate; 4) socio-political factors of social status, including several factors such as economy, group, race, ethnicity, one's beliefs; 5) the role of social institutions, public political participation can be increased through social institutions.

Effectiveness of Using Jendela Pontianak Integrasi (JEPIN) Application toward Developing Smart City in Siantar Hilir North Pontianak District

“…Many people in Pontianak City still need to learn and utilize this application as a facility to obtain information and data services in Pontianak City (Martoyo et al, 2020). Since the launch of the JEPIN application in 2019, the number of new downloads has reached more than 5,000 downloads, while the budget used to develop the application reached 60% of the Pontianak City ( Utami et al, 2022).…”