Fenomena Relawan Politik dalam Kontestasi Presidensial 2014

Abstract

This article describes how the presidential contestation in 2014 was characterized by the presence of political volunteers. Here political volunteers is defi ned as a manifestation of strengthening active participation of citizens in promoting substantive democracy. This article argues that the rise of a new social movement has brought a tradition of voluntarism in politics. In addition he voluntarism has transformed the values of patrimonial political and oligarchy onto active popular voluntarism and participatory. The political volunteers who employed offl ine and online medium have clearly increased public participation in Indonesia.This article has also argued the presence of political volunteers has positively contributed to developtment  of extra parlementary democracy model.