Muhammad Nur, - (2007) Makna Penting Dan Cara Kerja Praktik Politik Uang Dalam Pemenangan Pasangan Calon Kepala Daerah. Doctoral thesis, -.

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Abstract

At the legal system domain, the democratic transition in Indonesia is characterized by a change in local leader election system, from a non-direct election by the member of representative body to direct election by people. The application of direct election system in local political leader recruitment is normatively aimed to: (1) improve the accessibility of the recruiting process of local political leader, (2) bring in a more legitimate local political leader, and (3) minimize the possibility the money politics in the election of local political leaders. The phenomenon of direct election for local political leader during 2005-2006, however, shows the different fact. Money politics occurs in everywhere. Defining politics as the struggle for power, this research is intended to: (1) discover the signification of money politics in the winning process of local political leader candidates, (2) to describe the way of money politics works in the winning process of local political leader candidates, (3) to specify the functions of money politics in the winning process oflocal political leader candidates. A kabupaten district with high economic attractiveness was selected as the research site. A qualitative-descriptive analytical strategy was applied to analyze the gathered data in the form of formal document and published news, observational field notes, and the records of in-depth interviews with all main actors and the key informants of the election of local political leader. The findings show a number of threats of money politics have been anticipated, and have been tried to prevent systematically by establishing related regulations, and administering the supervisory committee and independent monitoring institutions. It is evident that money is the most necessary means to win the very tight rivalry in local political leader election since it can be converted into or exchanged with the other necessary means. The absolute nature of money as a means in attaining the goal of local political leader candidates, gives the opportunity for the political croupier to enter and intervene the process local political leader election. In the context of the relationship between the actors of local political leader election, money serves as the most certain binding. Such binding will influence the public policy decision made by the elected political leader so that gives special advantages

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