Political Dynasty and Kinship Networking in Bantanese Pilkada

摘要

The phenomenon of proliferation of political practices of kinship networking in Indonesia in the reform era is potentially endanger democracy due to the different treatment for competing political actors opportunities, as well as undermine the party's internal mechanisms in recruiting candidates for public officials. The location of this research is in Banten Province, where the phenomenon of kinship is very massive happened. The aims of the research are to explore: (1) the history of political dynastic involvement in PILKADA (local head elections), (2) the factors drive the political dynasty actors to enter the political sphere; (3) the background of the political dynasties involved in the Pilkada; (4) the function of political party recruitment in Pilkada, and (5) the instruments are utilized by political dynasty's candidates in Pilkada. The type of the research is a qualitative, using FGD, interview, and documentation study for collecting data, which will be analyzed using triangulation method. The results show that democratization and decentralization policy have been the key point for the actors of political dynasty to involve. In addition, The mastery of the economic base became the main driver of the dynastic political actors, so that most of the actors were entrepreneurs, meanwhile the functions of the party in recruitment are ineffective. Finally, the instruments frequently used by the political dynasty actors are money politics, kinship networks, and the use of mass organizations as a means of voters mobilization.