Penyelesaian Krisis Air Sebagai Konsistensi Kepentingan Para Aktor Dalam Arena Pilkada: (Studi di Desa Liprak Kidul, Kabupaten Probolinggo)

ROZALINA, Genta Mahardhika, Susetiawan

2014 | Tesis | Sosiologi

ABSTRACTION Genta Mahardhika Rozalinna. (2014). Master Degree Program in Sociologi, Social and Political Science Faculty, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. The Settlement of Water Crisis as The Interest Contestation of The Actors Within The Regional Election (Studi in Liprak Kidul Village, Probolinggo Regency). Thesis advisor: Susetiawan. Water crisis has become problematical issue in the beginning 21stcentury. Regarding to the crisis condition, the availability of the amount of water becomes the signifier of nature capability to provide the source of water. That is what happens in Liprak Kidul which has been hit by the water crisis because of the topographic condition; that it is located on the foot slope of Mount Geni‟s which is disadvantage for its location. Therefore, the location has slant land where the trees do not have enough water to retain. The difficulties of fulfilling the needs of water have been an interesting issue for the actors of regional election in order to gain support in such a way to give mass mobility by bringing up water crisis issue in Liprak Kidul. The political actors alongside with the local leader and the local campaign leader putting up so called networking and relations. They both become the local actors who run the strategies for the interest contestation in the regional election arena (Pilkada Bupati). The interest contestation was done by picking up the issue, arena, and strategies even the effort to giving realization of assistance relating to water issue, for instance Hippam and PDAM. This research employed Peter M. Blau‟s structuralism-exchange theory which explains the concept of exchanges the sociology subject (micro); and it is then combined with the power concept as the sociology subject (macro). The method used in this research is ethnomethodology by institutional analysis and conversation. The data-collecting method was done in two ways regarding to its primary and secondary data. The primary data were taken through field-research by interview, taking notes, and recording; while the secondary data were taken by documentation of pictures in the pre-field survey, research-journal, and library research. This research also took three informants; they are one key informant, four main informants, and three supporting informants. The result of this research are about description that water crisis becomes the forcing issue which causes „the web‟ between the local actors and the political ones in order to solve the water crisis case. This web built through the process of negotiation becomes the dominant strategy under the control of the local leader. The winning of the political actors upon gaining the supports in Liprak Kidul was rather seen as their capability and seriousness in overcoming the crisis issue than the power to put up „the web‟ among the political actors including political dynasty. Keywords: water crisis, political actor, local actor, networking, relation, realization of assistance.

Kata Kunci : Sumber Air