Agenda Setting Kebijakan Pilkada Serentak Tahun 2020 Dengan Menggunakan Multiple Streams Framework

Abstract

This paper discusses the agenda setting policy for 2020 simultaneous regional elections which were carried out in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Various rejection that have arisen and facts in the field seem to confirm that continuing to carry out the election is an inaccurate decision. The government decisions are classified and analyzed based on three streams, namely problem stream, political stream, and policy stream. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with a multiple stream perspective adopted from Kingdon's 2014 theoretical framework. The results of this study reveal that the public's desire to postpone the implementation of regional elections in the midst of a pandemic has been ignored by the government, considering that no one can confirm when this pandemic ends. Strong political stream more dominate because this election contestation is full of various political interests. The enactment of Perppu No. 2/2020 immediately terminate the various policy alternatives that had been offered.