POLA SOSIALISASI POLITIK KAUM SANTRI DI KELURAHAN KAUMAN, KOTA SEMARANG (STUDI KASUS: PEMILIH PKB)

Abstract

The santri are people who are obedient to the teachings of Islam, making the teachings of Islam as guidance in the activities. Today, however, santri politics has declined since reform era. The Islamic parties were unable to maintain the consistency of their grassroots voters so that from the 2004-2014 elections the Islamic parties were unable to emerge as champions. The pragmatism of Islamic political parties is suspected to be the grinding of its own grass-roots voters which caused the aliran politics to disappear from the national political phenomenon. However, this does not occur in local politics where Kauman as a santri area in the midst of the frenetic city of Abangan Semarang still found aliran politics affiliated to PKB. In election 2004 PKB obtained the most votes by 29,23 % while in 2009 PKB outperformed the vote in Kauman by 26,45%, while in 2014 PKB came out as the winner with 37,13 %. This research uses natural qualitative method with case study in Kauman Semarang. The results of this study show the socio-religious pattern through the preservation of Javanese Islamic traditions in Kauman causing strong social cohesion. This social cohesion is due to the tradition in Kauman implemented in mutual assistance, and in 1961 there was a battle of identity of Kauman's santri with the PKI over the seizure of Kauman Great Mosque.Within the pattern participation could shape the pattern of political life Kauman’s people is done by the PKB’s penetration method that follows the tradition in Kauman and involves community leaders and kyai as Kauman’s people role models. PKB becomes the political choice of the Kauman’s people with the values of walisongo and the nine star symbol. Kauman’s people will still choose PKB even if they do not know the candidate and most importantly PKB is not who the candidate is. Based on these results indicate that PKB still has grassroots supporters indicating aliran politics still exists at the local level.