Indonesia Conference Directory

The implementation of Regional Head Elections (Pilkada) has left a dark side with various cases that have occurred. The Ministry of Home Affairs has defected 77 regional heads affected by hand-held operations (OTT) and more than 300 regional heads were in trouble. Local politics that developed after democratization and decentralization turned out to give birth to various phenomena such as the practice of family, dynasty, kinship, oligarchy, local strongmen, localism, and so on. These phenomena place the public interest under the interests of a handful of groups. Thus, this phenomenon actually contradicts democracy which has values of equality, freedom and public control. This study links the politics of kinship to the abuse of power. Kinship relations in government or politics can affect policies and decisions made by holders of power and certainly will benefit only individuals or groups. Various solutions are increasingly being offered to improve systems and cultures that have the potential to hinder or disrupt good local governance. Moreover, the existence of political facts of kinship that occur will cause internal problems for political parties such as networks of power groups formed in the government which prioritize the base of kinship.