The Effect of Information Content of the Welfare of on Incumbents’ Reelection in Indonesia

Abstract

The electoral accountability demands the voters to be more intelligent by utilizing the information of the regional government performance as their consideration to select. The research aimed to examine the direct effects of Human Development Index, poverty, unemployment on incumbents’ reelection in the regional head elections in Indonesia. This research used the quantitative approach. The research object   were   the   regional head election   being   participated by the incumbents regional heads who ran for the second term in governmental affairs. The research data were the secondary data with the research sample as many as 80regional governments of provincies regencies/cities which were selected using the purposive sampling technique. The data were analyzed using the logistic regression analysis and were processed using the program of Econometric Views (eViews v.9). The research results indicated that the Human Development Index has the positive and significant effect on the incumbents’ reelection. While the poverty and unemployment do not have the significant effect on the incumbents’ reelection. The research conclusion indicates that regional head election in Indonesia have not functioned effectively as electoral accountability framework, in which the voters only utilize the regional government performance information related to Human Development Index and ignore other performance such as poverty, unemployment.