Pertarungan Elit Lokal pada Pilkada Humbang Hasundutan Tahun 2020

Abstract

The district is an administrative area after the province and consists of at least 5 sub-districts and its existence is very necessary because it already covers several areas that are quite large and wide. The regional head in a district is the regent who is directly elected by the people during regional elections once every 5 years. The local government has the authority to regulate and manage its own government affairs according to the principles of autonomy and co administration. To determine regional leaders or heads, direct regional head elections (Pilkada) are held. The purpose of the election is to determine who is an appropriate leader in a district, where the leader can be elected according to the wishes and wishes of the community for the progress and welfare of the community itself. Based on this, the researcher wants to look more deeply into the processes and events that occurred after and after the implementation of the regional elections, as well as the extent of the involvement of actors who have strategic positions in society and how the battles between these actors gain their interests by winning their support. where by Pareto they are known as local elites, who have greater bargaining rights in the community. To limit the study in research, the author will only discuss more deeply related to local elite battles in the implementation of regional elections, especially in the 2020 Humbahas regional election. There are important findings in this study including; First, the battle that occurs between local elites, namely middlemen and traditional leaders, these actors compete for votes from the community to win their respective support in order to achieve the interests of these elites. Second, local elites in Hubabas Regency have involvement and a central role in winning the candidates they support.