Kebijakan Politik Partai Gerindra Kota Medan pada Pemilihan Kepala Daerah (Studi Kasus: Pemilihan Walikota dan Wakil Walikota Medan Tahun 2015)

Abstract

This research tried to eleborate the facts of political party policy (Gerindra party) in Medan. Gerindra is one of new parties in Indonesian political world, which joined general election (Pemilu) in 2009. Gerindra party took six (6) seats of regional house representative in Medan. There were two types of policy had been researched, netting policy and coalition policy. By looking at the direction of Gerindra political policy, this research has answered How is netting policy of political party? How is coalition policy of political party? and anyone who is involved in netting and forming coalition in direct election 2015 in Medan? Theory implied to elaborate the problem was the theory of political party which focused on it's function as political recruitement from Roy C. Macridis and Miriam budiarjo. Theory stated by David easton, Ward, Calhoun, Leon Felkins, and Herbert A. Simon used to see more clearly about decision-making by using rational choice. Coalition theory by William Riker, Arend Lijphart, and the study by Huan Wang were used to see the process and the base in forming coalition done by political party. By using case-study design and interview method as the main technique of data collection beside the documents, this research relied on the analysis from interviews and documents gained and it's relevance with the theories used. The lack of local leaders (DPC) of Gerindra party in Medan to propose the pair of candidates caused this party to form coalition and do the act of netting. That the policy of netting was still polarized to the central and was in the hand of Prabowo Subianto as the chairman of the supervisor board was gained from the three researched indicators. And about the coalition policy done by Gerindra party because it was not eligible to propose the candidates, it was found that the forming process was done by the need to join in the general election and that the coalition forming was urgent and has no absolute base.