Local election: does bureaucracy become one of main political power?

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地球科学;经济学

Amin, Muryanto^1 ; Musthafa Sembiring, Walid^1

Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Sumatera Utara, Jl. Dr. A. Sofian No. 1, Medan

20155, Indonesia^1

关键词: bureaucracy;    Focus groups;    In-depth interviews;    Indonesia;    local election;    political power;    Qualitative analysis;    Stable structures;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/126/1/012097/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/126/1/012097

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This writing aims to analyze the emergence of bureaucracy as one of political power in local level after the local election is held in Indonesia. Due to information authorization, media network, and stable structure, the bureaucracy soon transforms into political power which can compete with the other political power at the local level. In Medan local election in 2010 and 2015 has evidently proven the power of bureaucracy network in winning the bureaucrat-background candidates. As methods of the research, the researcher held a Focus-Group Discussion (FGD) and had an in-depth interview with ten bureaucracy elites in Medan and local political elites. The observation and Focus-Group Discussion (FGD) are analyzed using qualitative analysis technique typology. The result states that the bureaucracy network in Medan has been used in a massive way as the political power of winning. The structure of bureaucracy - from the top to the low - is involved in the winning. The most governmental programs were applied to attract the mass' sympathy toward the candidates. The bureaucratic proximity to media network is also used to do a campaign in a massive way. The conclusion of the research is that bureaucracy emerges as a new, massive, effective local political power in the local election.