<![CDATA[Despite high voter turnout in the 2024 Presidential Election in Manokwari Regency (87.23%), active citizen involvement in the oversight function remains minimal, reflected in the dominance of institutional findings by the supervisory authority. Adopting a critical interpretative paradigm, this qualitative single case study examines the dialectic of oversight through an open-ended questionnaire data corpus from six stakeholder clusters, tested through the triangulation of Deliberative Democracy, Political Participation, and Emancipatory Political Education theories. This research identifies four interlocking obstacles: a distorted public space, an uneven distribution of participation resources, the constraints of a patronage-client structure accompanied by concerns about social sanctions, and the unidirectional transmission of political education. As a reconstructive synthesis, a model of four strategic repositionings is formulated that mutually integrates a shift in the social base toward community, a substantial orientation toward rights awareness, a temporal transformation toward sustainable patterns, and the strengthening of whistleblower protection as absolute prerequisites to provide a contextual alternative to the top-down oversight model in a local democratic landscape that remains clientelistic.]]>
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