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Abstract

Regional head election that conducted in Indonesia already give citizen opportunity to vote for the candidate directly, this election mechanism expected can be shown the people sovereignty. However, in the implementation of this mechanism, the direct election which is requires the active participation of the society doesn’t work as the expectation. It can be shown by the increase of non voters (Golput) expecially in Ende Sub-District, City of Makassar. The phenomena in the Ende Sub-District is the increase of the non voters in every regional election periode. Then it is important to conducted research to know the reason of this phenomena. Data of this research conducted by using qualitative method with in-deep interview. According to de data it shows that there are some factors that influence the increase of non voters in Ende Sub-District First the political trust to the candidate, related to the campaign mechanism that failed to get closer the candidate to the society so the implication is there is a lack of trust to the candidate. Second ethnicity, most of people in Ende Sub-District are Chinese, which is minority in Makassar. Third, is the negative assumption of the people in Ende Sub-District related to the politic.

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Regional Election Non-Voting behaviour R Golongan Putih City of Makassar

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ilma andasari, rista, abrar, sabrina ainun soraya ., santi, santi, & veronica, mona. (2022). The Non-Voting Behaviour in City of Makassar Regional Election 2020. Politics and Humanism, 1(2), 75-83. https://doi.org/10.31947/jph.v1i2.23749