Mengungkap presidential party di Indonesia (Studi kasus Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya)

• Main Author: SUNARTO, SUNARTO
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2015
• Subjects: Policy and Administration; Political Science not elsewhere classified
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/134789/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=77931
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

This study examines the dynamics of the political parties in Indonesia after the Reformation Era to choose political parties that was first held in 1999, a period similar to the event occurred in the 1955 election which was also attended by many political parties. This study focuses on how the process of formation and development of Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya (Great Indonesia Movement Party) popularly known as Gerindra as a presidential party in Indonesia. This is a descriptive qualitative study which looks at how the formation and development of Gerindra Party as the object of study as associated with the concept of 'presidentialization' which becomes the theme of the study. The birth of presidential party is a part of the logical consequences over the 1945 Amendment Act which results in the direct election of both president and vice president. The direct presidential elections since 2004 have implications for the entire constellation of political parties in Indonesia in preparation for the president candidates. In the context of political change in Indonesia, figure (candidate) is a part of important instruments in building a political party. This study is conducted based on the fact that Kawamura's study which does not explain and accommodate the types of party typologies emerging in the Indonesian post-reform whereas there is the emergence of the phenomenon of the presidential party. In a further development in this study, it can be concluded that the concept of the presidential party in this context occurs in Gerindra Party which has candidated a figure to be the president since the beginning of its founding. In other words, from the process of strengthening the influence of the central figure, since the founding of Gerindra Party, until his run for the president, this party grows in line with the dynamics of the parties which are then 'presidentialized'.