| Summary: | This research aimed to find out more specifically about the recruitment
process of legislative candidates by analyzing the processes and mechanisms
conducted by Prosperous Justice Party in the face of legislative elections in 2009
in Medan. PKS is one of the major political parties who have plenty of voters.
Previously, PKS also had became a political party winning elections in the city of
Medan and is the only Islamic party which had obtained the most seats in
parliament elections in the history of the city of Medan in Indonesia. Ability of
the PKS become one of the major political parties in the city of Medan certainly
have relations with how PKS do the recruitment. It makes interesting PKS made
the case for research on recruitment processes of legislative candidates in
legislative elections in 2009 the PKS in the city of Medan.
This research also measured the level of democratization as well as the
PKS in the process of recruiting candidates. The approach used is descriptive
qualitative and pks as a case study in this research. Data was collected with the
method of documentation, interviews and field observations. Recruitment
observed in this study operationalization by using such indicators, quality of
candidates, the openness of the recruitment process, community participation,
and development base with civil society
This study successfully demonstrated that the quality of PKS candidates
are good enough when viewed from the level of education that almost all
legislative candidates PKS is a graduate degree and some have passed the
postgraduate level. PKS has two times following the general election after
changing the name, so that from the experience, candidates for legislative
members of PKS has experienced enough, considering that there are also some
legislative candidate who was also member of the previous legislature.
Personally, the popularity of candidates for legislative members of PKS is not so
high, but PKS as an institution has a high popularity in the community.
PKS candidates recruitment process is closed, causing the PKS tends to
be more exclusive. This is because efforts to preserve the Islamic ideology as the
party with the good succession planning, so that the selection of candidates is
highly selective made PKS as a form of consistency to the ideology of the party,
and regarded as a cadre of people capable of carrying the PKS remain as party
da’wah in the political life of the state. Therefore, the low transparency in the
recruitment process. The network expansion effort with civilian communities,
PKS continued to show consistency as party da’wah, because the networks are
built by PKS concentrated almost entirely to the study group. Then, to show
consistency as a clean party, PKS also conducts social contracts with several civil
organizations as well as all legislative candidates in internal party PKS was asked
to swear and sign the contents of the political contract between the parties with
legislative candidates.
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