Integritas: Jurnal Antikorupsi Vol 9, No. 1, 2023, pp. 121-134 https://jurnal.kpk.go.id/index.php/integritas ©Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi 10.32697/integritas.v9i1.990 e-mail: jurnal.integritas@kpk.go.id Empowered women against corruption: A case study of Cadres Posyandu Rumpin Village in responding to money politic Mentari Ramadhianty a , Usep Hasan Sadikin b , Rizky Argama c * Sekolah Tinggi Hukum Indonesia Jentera, Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan 12980, Indonesia a mentari.anjhanie@jentera.ac.id; b usep @perludem.org; c rizky.argama@pshk.or.id * Corresponding Author Abstract: As a part of vulnerable groups contributing to a greater number of voters than men, women are prone to be targeted as the objects of money politics during the 2019 General Election (Pemilu) and 2020 Regional Election (Pilkada). The degree of vulnerability adds up when the Criminal Code (KUHP) and laws on Regional Election (UU Pilkada) put punishment upon the perpetrator and recipient of money politics. This research, done on the female cadres of the Durian Integrated Health Service Post ( Posyandu) in Rumpin Village, Rumpin District, West Java, showcases that women’s empowerment in raising awareness and establishing relationships could calibrate the hegemony and the patriarchal structure in money politics. All the cadres in Durian Posyandu had experienced being the target of money politics. However, within the realization and relationship among women, money, goods, or public facilities from perpetrators of political parties or political allies could not affect women’s political choices. Within the open-list proportional electoral system and extreme multiparty system which systematically promote money politics, the advancement of women’s empowerment is necessary to shift money politics into ideological and visionary political transactions according to aspirations and policies to fulfill citizens' rights. Keywords: Money Politics; Women’s Empowerment; Corruption; Power; 2019 General Election; 2020 Regional Election How to Cite: Ramadhianty, M. A., Sadikin, U. H., & Argama, R. (2023). Empowered women against corruption: A case study of Cadres Posyandu Rumpin Village in responding to money politic. Integritas : Jurnal Antikorupsi, 9(1), 121-134. https://doi.org/10.32697/integritas.v9i1.990 Introduction During the 2019 general election, 19-33% of the 192 million citizens on the final voter list (FVL) were exposed to money politics. This percentage is very high by international standards, and it placed Indonesia as the country with the third greatest ranking of money politics in the world (Muhtadi, 2019). An open-list proportional system with very large electoral districts produces an extreme multiparty system in parliament as one of the systemic causes of rampant money politics and corruption (Chang & Golden, 2007). Rumpin Village, Rumpin District, is located in Bogor Regency, West Java Province and it is a region with the most population in Indonesia. Connected to Jakarta and Depok, Rumpin is a part of the electoral district of an open-list proportional electoral system that forms an extreme multi- party system (ENPP=6.7) of 55 seats in the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) of Bogor Regency (opendata.kpu. go.id, 2022). Rumpin is one of nine sub-districts in the Electoral District 5 of the Bogor Regency DPRD. Ten seats were secured equally by nine parties. The even distribution of seats by many parties in parliament illustrated political fluidity because there was no ideological and platform distinction between one party and another. This political fluidity has made money politics a reliable way for candidates and political parties to obtain votes, especially from women voters. Women are generally a part of society subordinated in the social structure as a second-class sex identity based on two hierarchical aspects (De Beauvoir, 1949, pp. 23–27), and the women in Rumpin are no exception. This is because women are physically subordinated to men as the superordinate gender (De Beauvoir, 1949, pp. 41–42). In addition, those who generally work as housewives are subordinated because they are not financially independent (De Beauvoir, 1949,