Local Values in Local Political Culture and Democracy: A Review of Hermeneutics among Local Elites
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Technium Social Sciences Journal
Vol. 46, 298-308, August, 2023
ISSN: 2668-7798
SOCIAL SCIENCES JOUR NAL www.techniumscience.com
Local values in local political culture and democracy; A
review of hermeneutics among local elites
Rahmat Abd Fatah, Syamsul Arifin2, Vina Salviana Darvina Sudarwo3, Fauzik
Lendriyono4
'Muhammadiyah University of North Maluku. Indonesia, 23 4University of
Muhammadiyah Malang. Indonesia
rahmatabdfatah@gmail.com
Abstract. The reforms provided space for local elites, both traditionally based (Bangsawan) and
political elites (Bureaucrats-Politicians) to contest in the arena of local democracy. It is in this
arena that the value of the political culture of local elites is tested whether it can strengthen
democracy or on the contrary weaken democracy in the midst of the process towards its
death.(Ziblatt, 2019) where democracy, which actually places the people as the main focal point,
becomes blunted by political oligarchy and personal elite domination (Fatah & Deni,
2019).(Fatah & Deni, 2019). Using Gadamer's Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Methods,
this research analyses the actions of local elites in interpreting the local values of Jou Se Ngofa
Ngare in the 2020 Ternate City Regional Election Arena. This research aims to find the meaning
of Jou Se Ngofa Ngare local values in strengthening the cultural values of local politics and
democracy. The results of the study revealed that [1] The meaning of local values in local
political culture and democratic values is interpreted by local elites through the process of
history, pre-understanding (prejudice), tradition and value authority of leaders (Sultan / Kolano)
and cultural symbols [2] The stronger the meaning and application of local values, the stronger
the meaning and application of the relationship between leaders (Jou) and the people (Ngofa
Ngare) in strengthening local political culture and democratic values.
Keywords. Local values, political culture, democracy, Hermeneutics, Local Elites
Introduction
The reform mandate provides space for local elites, both traditionally based (nobles)
and political elites (bureaucrats-politicians) to gather in an arena of local democratic
contestation. It is in this arena that political culture related to orientation, attitudes, beliefs and
symbolic identities become the basis of democratic expression of local political elites in the
post-New Order and reformation era.
The cultural base of society such as the value of Jou Se Ngofa Ngare in Ternate City
is used as a space for expression and political legitimacy of local elites. Jou Se Ngofa Ngare is
a local value of the Ternate community that is the basis of human relations with God in the
sense of religion, as well as the relations between the people and their leaders in social, cultural
and political contexts. In terminology, Jou is interpreted as God and Ngofa Ngare as
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