Skip to main content
Original Research Article Open Access SINTA 2 Accredited

Policy Communication and the Solidity of the Jokowi's Second Term Coalition in Handling Covid-19

Authors

  • Ferdinand Eskol Tiar Sirait
  • UPN Veteran Jakarta
DOI
10.21787/jbp.13.2021.257-268
Published & Pages
31 August 2021 · pp. 257-268
Manuscript History
Received31 May 2021 Accepted5 Jul 2021 Published31 Aug 2021
License
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
Read PDF 329 KB Cite

1,253 Views 918 Downloads

Abstract

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has had a major impact on people's lives, has prompted the president and his cabinet members to respond with various policy stimuli. This study wants to see the solidity of the president's assistants in responding to President Jokowi's general policies in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and analyze the causes of the ineffectiveness of policies taken with an applied communication approach the policy field. By using the literature study method, this research finds that the implementation of policies made by the president's assistants is not in line with the wishes of the president as the Head of Government. This is probably due to the political power dynamics contained in the Jokowi's second term coalition members. In addition, the interests of coalition members may impact the process and decision-making of a policy. The results of this study recommend that the government strengthen the role of the structure in charge of managing and ensuring that the policies taken by the president's assistants in handling Covid-19 are in line with the president's wishes. Furthermore, it is necessary to communicate the policy to all stakeholders involved in the policy process so that the policies taken in handling Covid-19 do not represent the political interests of coalition members. In addition, to maintain the solidity of the coalition cabinet in handling Covid-19, the positions of cabinet members involved in the policy implementation process must submit to the power of the President as Head of

Keywords:

Read the Full Text

The full text of this article is available as PDF. Version of record published in Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021).

Open PDF

References

56 references
  1. Agustino, L. (2020). Analisis Kebijakan Penanganan Wabah Covid-19: Pengalaman Indonesia. Jurnal Borneo Administrator, 16(2), 253–270. https://doi.org/10.24258/jba.v16i2.685
  2. Alemán, E., & Tsebelis, G. (2011). Political Parties and Government Coalitions in the Americas. Journal of Politics in Latin America, 3(1), 3–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X1100300101
  3. Amin, R. M., Febrina, R., & Wicaksono, B. (2021). Handling COVID-19 from a Collaborative Governance Perspective in Pekanbaru City. Jurnal Bina Praja, 13(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.21787/jbp.13.2021.1-13
  4. Andhika, L. R. (2017). Pathology Bureaucracy: Reality of the Indonesian Bureaucracy and Prevention. Jurnal Bina Praja, 9(1), 101–114. https://doi.org/10.21787/jbp.09.2017.101-114
  5. Azizi, I. A., Khomarudin, S., Mubdi, U., & Sudirman, A. (2016). Relasi Pembantu Presiden dalam Kabinet Kerja Jokowi-JK. Jurnal Penelitian Hukum, 3(1), 1–14.
  6. Béland, D., Howlett, M., & Mukherjee, I. (2018). Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: An introduction. Policy and Society, 37(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2017.1375249
  7. Biswas, A., Bhattacharjee, U., Chakrabarti, A. K., Tewari, D. N., Banu, H., & Dutta, S. (2020). Emergence of Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19: Whether to stay or die out? Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 46(2), 182–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/1040841X.2020.1739001
  8. Borges, A., Turgeon, M., & Albala, A. (2020). Electoral incentives to coalition formation in multiparty presidential systems. Party Politics, 135406882095352. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068820953527
  9. Bowler, S., McElroy, G., & Müller, S. (2020). Campaigns and the Selection of Policy‐Seeking Representatives. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 45(3), 397–431. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12260
  10. Byerly, C. M. (2011). Behind the Scenes of Women’s Broadcast Ownership. Howard Journal of Communications, 22(1), 24–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2011.546740
  11. Campos, P. A., & Reich, M. R. (2019). Political Analysis for Health Policy Implementation. Health Systems & Reform, 5(3), 224–235. https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2019.1625251
  12. Canary, H. (2010). Constructing Policy Knowledge: Contradictions, Communication, and Knowledge Frames. Communication Monographs, 77(2), 181–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751003758185
  13. Canary, H. E., & McPhee, R. D. (2009). The Mediation of Policy Knowledge: An Interpretive Analysis of Intersecting Activity Systems. Management Communication Quarterly, 23(2), 147–187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318909341409
  14. Canary, H. E., & Taylor, J. L. (2020). Policy Communication: Engaging Multiplicity. In H. D. O’Hair & M. J. O’Hair (Eds.), The Handbook of Applied Communication Research (1st ed., pp. 675–691). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119399926.ch37
  15. Carroll, R., & Kubo, H. (2019). Measuring and comparing party ideology and heterogeneity. Party Politics, 25(2), 245–256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068817710222
  16. Castor, T. (2007). Language Use During School Board Meetings: Understanding Controversies of and About Communication. Journal of Business Communication, 44(2), 111–136. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021943606298828
  17. Chang, L., & Jacobson, T. (2010). Measuring Participation as Communicative Action: A Case Study of Citizen Involvement in and Assessment of a City’s Smoking Cessation Policy-Making Process. Journal of Communication, 60(4), 660–679. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01508.x
  18. Debus, M., & Gross, M. (2016). Coalition formation at the local level: Institutional constraints, party policy conflict, and office-seeking political parties. Party Politics, 22(6), 835–846. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068815576292
  19. Douglas, M., Katikireddi, S. V., Taulbut, M., McKee, M., & McCartney, G. (2020). Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response. BMJ, m1557. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1557
  20. Ewert, B. (2020). Moving beyond the obsession with nudging individual behaviour: Towards a broader understanding of Behavioural Public Policy. Public Policy and Administration, 35(3), 337–360. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076719889090
  21. Fawzi, N. (2018). Beyond policy agenda-setting: Political actors’ and journalists’ perceptions of news media influence across all stages of the political process. Information, Communication & Society, 21(8), 1134–1150. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1301524
  22. Ferretti, V., Pluchinotta, I., & Tsoukiàs, A. (2019). Studying the generation of alternatives in public policy making processes. European Journal of Operational Research, 273(1), 353–363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.07.054
  23. Fraussen, B., & Halpin, D. R. (2018). Political Parties and Interest Organizations at the Crossroads: Perspectives on the Transformation of Political Organizations. Political Studies Review, 16(1), 25–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929916644868
  24. Freudenreich, J. (2016). The Formation of Cabinet Coalitions in Presidential Systems. Latin American Politics and Society, 58(4), 80–102. https://doi.org/10.1111/laps.12003
  25. Gilson, L. (2016). Everyday Politics and the Leadership of Health Policy Implementation. Health Systems & Reform, 2(3), 187–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2016.1217367
  26. Gollust, S. E., & Cappella, J. N. (2014). Understanding Public Resistance to Messages About Health Disparities. Journal of Health Communication, 19(4), 493–510. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2013.821561
  27. Gustomy, R. (2020). Pandemi ke Infodemi: Polarisasi Politik dalam Wacana Covid-19 Pengguna Twitter. JIIP: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pemerintahan, 5(2), 190–205. https://doi.org/10.14710/jiip.v5i2.8781
  28. Jenkins-Smith, H. C., Nohrstedt, D., Weible, C. M., & Karin Ingold. (2018). The Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Overview of the Research Program. In Theories of the Policy Process. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429494284
  29. Jones, E., Kreuter, M., Pritchett, S., Matulionis, R. M., & Hann, N. (2006). State Health Policy Makers: What’s the Message and Who’s Listening? Health Promotion Practice, 7(3), 280–286. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839906289583
  30. Kamim, A. B. Muh. (2021). Pembelajaran Kebijakan Masa Pandemi Covid-19: Sebuah Sanggahan Atas Artikel Widaningrum dan Mas’udi (2020). Jurnal Borneo Administrator, 17(1), 21–40. https://doi.org/10.24258/jba.v17i1.721
  31. Kellam, M. (2017). Why Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Presidential Systems? British Journal of Political Science, 47(2), 391–411. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123415000198
  32. Lee, D. S. (2020). Executive control of bureaucracy and presidential cabinet appointments in East Asian democracies. Regulation & Governance, 14(1), 82–101. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12190
  33. LeGreco, M., & Tracy, S. J. (2009). Discourse Tracing as Qualitative Practice. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(9), 1516–1543. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800409343064
  34. Li, N., Brossard, D., Anderson, A. A., Scheufele, D. A., & Rose, K. M. (2018). How do policymakers and think tank stakeholders prioritize the risks of the nuclear fuel cycle? A semantic network analysis. Journal of Risk Research, 21(5), 599–621. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2016.1223164
  35. Mainwaring, S. (1993). Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy: The Difficult Combination. Comparative Political Studies, 26(2), 198–228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414093026002003
  36. Mainwaring, S., & Shugart, M. S. (1997). Juan Linz, Presidentialism, and Democracy: A Critical Appraisal. Comparative Politics, 29(4), 449. https://doi.org/10.2307/422014
  37. Mertens, G., Gerritsen, L., Duijndam, S., Salemink, E., & Engelhard, I. M. (2020). Fear of the coronavirus (COVID-19): Predictors in an online study conducted in March 2020. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 74, 102258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102258
  38. Neuman, W. L. (2011). Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (7th ed.). Pearson.
  39. Nicola, M., Alsafi, Z., Sohrabi, C., Kerwan, A., Al-Jabir, A., Iosifidis, C., Agha, M., & Agha, R. (2020). The socio-economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19): A review. International Journal of Surgery, 78, 185–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.04.018
  40. Oliver, T. R. (2006). The Politics of Public Health Policy. Annual Review of Public Health, 27(1), 195–233. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.25.101802.123126
  41. Otjes, S., & Green-Pedersen, C. (2021). When do political parties prioritize labour? Issue attention between party competition and interest group power. Party Politics, 27(4), 619–630. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819875605
  42. Otjes, S., & Rasmussen, A. (2017). The collaboration between interest groups and political parties in multi-party democracies: Party system dynamics and the effect of power and ideology. Party Politics, 23(2), 96–109. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068814568046
  43. Pascarella, G., Strumia, A., Piliego, C., Bruno, F., Del Buono, R., Costa, F., Scarlata, S., & Agrò, F. E. (2020). COVID‐19 diagnosis and management: A comprehensive review. Journal of Internal Medicine, 288(2), 192–206. https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.13091
  44. Qodir, Z., Effendi, G. N., Jubba, H., Nurmandi, A., & Hidayati, M. (2020). Covid-19 and Chaos in Indonesia Social-Political Responsibilities. Journal of Talent Development and Excellence, 12(1), 4629–4642. https://www.iratde.com/index.php/jtde/article/view/1480
  45. Riana, F. (2020, April 29). DPR Kritik Kebijakan Pemerintah Tumpang Tindih Tangani Covid-19. Tempo. https://nasional.tempo.co/read/1336803/dpr-kritik-kebijakan-pemerintah-tumpang-tindih-tangani-covid-19
  46. Rivai, A. (2017). Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration. Jurnal Bina Praja, 9(2), 255–264. https://doi.org/10.21787/jbp.09.2017.255-264
  47. Sabatier, P. (2019). Theories of the Policy Process (P. A. Sabatier, Ed.; 1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367274689
  48. Samuels, D. J., & Shugart, M. S. (2003). Presidentialism, Elections and Representation. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 15(1), 33–60. https://doi.org/10.1177/0951692803151002
  49. Sekretariat Kabinet Republik Indonesia. (2020, March 24). Presiden Minta Kebijakan Penanganan Covid-19 Semua Satu Visi. Sekretariat Kabinet Republik Indonesia. https://setkab.go.id/presiden-minta-kebijakan-penanganan-covid-19-semua-satu-visi/
  50. Sirait, F. E. T., & Sanjaya, R. (2021). Case Study in Covid-19 Infodemic in Indonesia. Nyimak: Journal of Communication, 5(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.31000/nyimak.v5i1.2652
  51. Tummers, L. (2019). Public Policy and Behavior Change. Public Administration Review, 79(6), 925–930. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13109
  52. Urwin, K., & Jordan, A. (2008). Does public policy support or undermine climate change adaptation? Exploring policy interplay across different scales of governance. Global Environmental Change, 18(1), 180–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.08.002
  53. Volkery, A., & Ribeiro, T. (2009). Scenario planning in public policy: Understanding use, impacts and the role of institutional context factors. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76(9), 1198–1207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2009.07.009
  54. Wagman, I. M. (2010). On the Policy Reflex in Canadian Communication Studies. Canadian Journal of Communication, 35(4), 619–630. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2010v35n4a2422
  55. Wahyudi, A. (2016). Value-added in Public Service Innovation: The Practice at Integrated Service Units in Pontianak Municipality and Tanah Bumbu District. Jurnal Bina Praja, 8(1), 49–58. https://doi.org/10.21787/jbp.08.2016.49-58
  56. Wahyudi, A. (2017). Problematizations of Discretion Policy in Indonesia’s Administration Law Number 30 of 2014. Jurnal Bina Praja, 9(1), 73–81. https://doi.org/10.21787/jbp.09.2017.73-81

Copyright & Open Access License

Copyright (c) 2021 Author(s). This article is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0.