THE SOCIO-CULTURAL ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY UPON FORMATION OF LEGISLATION (A Review of the Electoral Act)

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Background: Community participation in the formulation of laws is a form of political participation by society. Law number 12/2011 article 96 talks about the participation of the community in the process of making laws and regulations. In the context of lawmaking, participation means participating in or supervising, controlling, and influencing the community in a process of making laws and regulations, from planning to evaluating how well it is implemented. Based on the stages of lawmaking as explained in the laws and regulations, especially Article 96 of Law No.12/2011, these provisions must then be realized. The next issue is the development of laws that do not follow the stages or involve the community. In this case, society refers to individuals or groups of individuals who are interested in the content of the proposed legislation. Article 96 of Law No.96 12/2011 explains that the public has the right to provide input on the formation of laws and regulations both orally and in writing. Method: Normative legal research approaches: respectively law-based and conceptual approaches. Literature and research findings relating to the subject of the study are also used as additional sources of information.

Keyword : Culture, Law, Society, Legislation