PERANAN POLITIK LEGISLATOR PEREMPUAN DARI KALANGAN SELEBRITAS DI DPR RI 2009-2014 DALAM FUNGSI LEGISLASI

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Women in Indonesia have various occupation backgroundsas means to
fulfill their rights as human being. In this day and age, entering politics is no
longer strange for women. Politics is also free to be entered by anyone with any
background, including celebrity. Women celebrities who participated in politics
are the object of this research. This research aims to discover the political role of
celebrity legislator in regards to legislative function of DPR RI in 2009-2014 term.
To achieve its objectives, this research uses celebrity political theory and the
theory of women's participation in public policy making. This research was
conducted using qualitative method and havedescriptive nature. The subjects were
female celebrity legislator of DPR RI within 2009-2014 term, namely:
OkkyAsokawaty, Venna Melinda, Rachel Maryam.
The results of this research shows that women celebrity legislators played an
active role in the parliament’s legislative function and benefited by collegial
collective system in order to run three functions of DPR. However, the research
finds that women celebrity legislator have not been able to perform legislative
function in terms of personal proposal for act enactment, less strategic position in
parliament for women legislators and also negative stigma of society towards
women celebrities legislator which could potentially hamper their works.
Keywords: Women Legislators, Women Celebrity, Legislative Function