Political Ethics Versus Political Pragmatism: Political Voting Behaviour in Semarang Local Election

摘要

In practice, there are not many attention paying to the consent of political ethic in local politics of Indonesia. The questions of how to win the local election are much more prioritized rather than to stop political immoralities. These political immoralities in the local election may refer to several political practices such as money politics, black campaign and abuse of power of bureaucracy and city political leaders (such as a city mayor). The main objective of this research is to provide an interesting insights about the tension between political ethics versus political pragmatisms, especially related to political voting behavior in 2015 Semarang local election.