Budaya Politik Masyarakat Suku Sasak Dalam Pemilihan Umum Kepala Daerah Secara Langsung (Studi Di Desa Pringgajurang, Kabupaten Lombok Timur)

Abstract

Political culture in a particular society will be different from another peoples political culture, based on it, the types of political culture can be classified into several types, including: parochial political culture, subject political culture and participant political culture. The purpose of this study is to describe the Political Culture of the Sasak Tribe Society in the Direct Regional Head Election in East Lombok Regency in 2013 at Pringgajurang Village, East Lombok Regency. This research uses qualitative approach with descriptive method. The informants and subjects in this study were determined using Purposive Sampling technique. Then the data that have been collected is analyzed descriptively through data reduction step, data presentation, and conclusion. The result of the research shows that the people of Pringgajurang Village have the characteristic of the subject's political culture with the tendency of affective attitude and political orientation in determining their political choice mostly based on the affective factor (feeling). The political culture of participants is seen from the level of community participation in the direct election in East Lombok regency which is already high enough, where the community already has awareness to participate in voting without coercion from others, the participant here is the passive participant because the community participate in voting because choose one of the couples carried by one of the religious organizations namely NW.