Proceedings of the 1st MICOSS Mercu Buana International Conference on Social Sciences, MICOSS 2020, September 28-29, 2020, Jakarta, Indonesia

Research Article

Political Marketing Communication Strategy of Prabowo-Sandiaga in the 2019 Presidential Elections

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.28-9-2020.2307722,
        author={Ellaine  Bingarrayni and Nur  Kholisoh},
        title={Political Marketing Communication Strategy of Prabowo-Sandiaga in the 2019 Presidential Elections },
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st MICOSS Mercu Buana International Conference on Social Sciences, MICOSS 2020, September 28-29, 2020, Jakarta, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={MICOSS},
        year={2021},
        month={5},
        keywords={political marketing communication symbolic interaction social media and neuroscience},
        doi={10.4108/eai.28-9-2020.2307722}
    }
    
  • Ellaine Bingarrayni
    Nur Kholisoh
    Year: 2021
    Political Marketing Communication Strategy of Prabowo-Sandiaga in the 2019 Presidential Elections
    MICOSS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-9-2020.2307722
Ellaine Bingarrayni1,*, Nur Kholisoh1
  • 1: Universitas Mercu Buana, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Contact email: el.0909@yahoo.com

Abstract

Political marketing holds an important role in democratic context which is actualized by marketing strategies as the best method to gain a triumph. In addition, the candidates must convince the voters to take sides and vote for them. This can be achieved if the candidates obtain a great support from the voters. This situation is relevant to Prabowo-Sandiaga as one of the candidates in the 2019 presidential elections. In politics, neuroscience approach can be applied as one of the strategies for political marketing. A research on neuroscience is important to carry out in order to inform the ongoing situation to society and enable them to respond and also take sides for controversial statements delivered by the candidates in their campaigns. This research applied a symbolic interaction theory and political marketing communication which are categorized as a method and marketing applications in politics. The paradigm used in this study was constructivists with case study method and deep interview as the data collection techniques. The interviewees were individuals who involved in the campaign team of Prabowo-Sandi, social media account administrators of Prabowo-Sandi, several political communication experts, and neuroscientists. The results revealed that Prabowo-Sandi applied a Lees-Marshment method as the political marketing communication strategy with economic populist program as the political product offered to constituents.