Siti Aliyuna Pratisti, Taufk Hidayat, Deasy Silvya Sari. Festive and Viral: Outlining the Islamist and the Leftist in Indonesia’s 2019 Election. Central European Journal of International and Security Studies 13, no. 4: 342–353. © 2019 CEJISS. Article is distributed under Open Access licence: Attribution - NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (cc by-nc 3.0). Festive and Viral Outlining the Islamist and the Leftist in Indonesia’s 2019 Election Siti Aliyuna Pratisti, Taufk Hidayat, Deasy Silvya Sari One of the most signifcant phenomena is the emergence of political identity that moves participation further from the conventional polit- ical platform. The Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring are suitable examples for postmodern politics which characterize by unstructured movement that was no longer based on traditional po- litical party system. In Indonesia, a non-conventional political partici- pation guided by self-actualization and identity driven motive, is per- formed by various groups of society–from religious movement which took the center stage of political discourse in Indonesia to youth left- ist movement who run a campaign on Golongan Putih (an apolitical movement that suggest youngster to disassociate with any political group). Despite the diference in political values and goals, this pleth- ora of movements shared the same platform in the landscape of social media. By using the postmodern paradigm, this article aim to illustrate how postmodern politics has shaped political identity and political participation in Indonesia. Authors conducted literature review to- ward social medias and relevant articles and also did informal inter- view with purposeful sampling toward the youth leftist movements. This article fnd that in Indonesia’s 2019 election, in postmodern pol- itics, the leftist and the Islamist in Indonesia are facing the paradox of profanity, whereas political participation is shaped in daily basis: always changing and superfcial.