Relationship of Mutual Trusts of People Against Political Participation in the Use of the Right to Choose in Executive Elections in Indonesia

Abstract—The purpose of this study is to examine the
relationship of trustworthiness to other people (trustworthiness of the people) using ethnicity and faith (religion) indicators and their relation to political participation in the use of voting rights in elections in Indonesia. This research is descriptive quantitative research, the data used from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) 5th Edition released in 2016. Because the data used binary, so to know the strength of the relationship of each variable will be tested by using binary logistic regression analysis. Data processing in this research using Stata 13 program. It found that Mutual trusts containing respondents
are still low, especially respondents trusting people with similar beliefs. These circumstances can be changed and concepted by issues such as religious sentimentalism and ethnicity because of the religions and the dynamics of politics in Indonesia.

Keywords—mutual trust, political participation, the use of
suffrage, elections.