KREDIBILI TAS DAN GLEMBUK ELIT Studi Relasi Kuasa di Desa Pulungsari Yogyakarta pada Era Reformasi

• Main Authors: , Bambang Hudayana, Drs.,MA., , Prof. Dr. Hari Poerwanto
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2011
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/88628/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=50287
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Political contestation between elites and people in the villages of Java is increasingly phenomenal in reform era. This study elucidates the phenomenon aimed at understanding and explaining as to whether the political contestation is related to the elites� credibility, on how elites and peoples develop their political strategies to strengthen their political controls. In a bid to come up with its objective, this research applies processual and phenomenological approach. The former apprehends a politics as the dynamic contest of power, because each actor is making efforts to influence the games continuously, and to deal with their weaknesses in encountering their opponents. While the latter srutinizes to the practice of glembuk, as a persuasive strategy existing in the mind of Javanese villagers. By using the phenomenological approach, the data are collected and analyzed by applying ethnographic method. This ethnographic study is conducted in Pulungsari Village, Bantul District of Yogyakarta Special Region. The research finding explains that credibility is power bases of village elite, but the more important thing is glembuk as a strategy for producing or manipulating credibility. By manipulating glembuk, elites who have less credibility are able to influence, rule, or persuade the people to accept, endorse and enact their political decision. There is a difference pattern between elites� glembuk at the New Order and the reform era. During the New Order, elites owned a powerful legal-rational authority