Gerakan reformasi politik di Indonesia menuntut perubahan politik mendasar. Reformasi politik menghendaki adanya keterbukaan politik yang luas, sehingga muncul banyak partai politik. Pemilu tahun 1999 di DKI Jakarta menghasilkan wakil rakyat yang duduk di DPRD DKI Jakarta. Pemilu tersebut mengantarkan PPP sebagai partai politik pemenang kedua, yang mempunyai peran signifikan di dalam mengeluarkan aspirasi konstituennya. Pokok masalah penelitian ini adalah bagaimana interaksi politik anggota Fraksi PPP dalam pemilihan Gubernur DKI Jakarta tahun 2002.Penelitian ini mengunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Data primer dikumpulkan dari sumber informan, melalui wawancara mendalam (indepth interview) dari suatu penelitian lapangan (field research). Sedangkan data sekunder didapatkan dari berbagai buku dan dokumen tertulis, melalui suatu penelitian kepustakaan (library research). Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori perwakilan politik, teori partai politik. teori elit. dan teori komunikasi politik.Dalam pemilihan Gubernur dan Wakil Gubernur DKI Jakarta tahun 2002 FPPP DPRD DKI Jakarta belum berperan secara memadai, karena belum ada interaksi politik yang baik. Baik antar anggota FPPP maupun dengan fraksi lainnya. Pada awalnya FPPP merupakana satu-satunya fraksi yang menggulirkan calon gubernur berasal dari betawi asli dan wacana pemlihan secara langsung. Ide ini tidak berhasil diperjuangkan. Kemudian Hamzah Haz, selaku Ketua Umum DPP PPP yang juga sebagai Wakil Presiden RI, mendorong FPPP berkoalisi dengan FPDI-P dalam pemilihan Gubernur dan Wakil Gubernur DKI Jakarta tahun 2002, hal ini pun tidak berhasil dijalankan. Dalam proses politik selanjutnya terjadi interaksi politik antar fraksi di dalam dewan secara ketat, di mana kemampuan memanfaatkan peluang politik sangat menentukan. FPPP hanya mendasarkan perhitungan suara hasil pemilu tahun 1999, akibatnya perhitungan tersebut tidak tepat dan pasangan yang diunggulkan FPPP, Sutiyoso dan Chudlary kurang mendapat dukungan. Sedangkan pasangan Sutiyoso dan Fauzi Bowo mendapat dukungan dari FPDI-P, FPG, dan FPKP, ditambah rekomendasi dari Megawati Sukarno Putri yang juga merupakan Presiden R.I. Hal tersebut membuat pasangan Sutiyoso dan Fauzi Bowo memenangkan pemilihan Gubernur dan Wakil Gubernur Jakarta periode 2002-2007.

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The Role of Partai Persatuan Pembangunan's Faction Members in DPRD DKI Jakarta in Succeeding the Governor of DKI Jakarta, A. Study Case on the 2002 Election of DKI Jakarta's Governor Position.Political reformation movement in Indonesia demanded for significant political changes. Political reformation looked for a wider political openness which led to the emergence of many political parties. The 1999 local election at DKI Jakarta had selected member of local parliament (DPRD DKI Jakarta), in which Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP) became the second winner with significant role as a channel of its constituent's aspiration. The core problem of this research is how members of PPP faction in DPRD DKI Jakarta interact politically during the 2002 Election of the Governor of DKI Jakarta.

This research is a descriptive qualitative research. Data collected through 2 sources: primary data in the form of in-depth interview and secondary data in the forms of books, newspapers and meeting reports. The unit of analysis used the organization, focusing on the observation on individual members. The whole problems are analyzed descriptively. The collection of data was conducted by library research and field research. The theories that used in this research are political representative theory, political parry theory, elite theory, and political communication theory.

During the 2002 Election of Governor and Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta, the PPP faction of DPRD DKI Jakarta have not played significant role due to the lack of good political interaction, between members of PPP faction and with other factions. In the beginning, PPP faction in DPRD DKI Jakarta was the only faction who demanded the candidate of DKI Jakarta's governor came from indigenous Betawi and the election process to be held directly. These demands failed to get supports due to the lack of preparation on many things. Hamzah Haz as the chairman of PPP as well as Vice President of Indonesian Republic underlined the importance of Vice President position to be maintained, which called upon coalition to be established between PPP and PDI-P faction. It was clear depicted in the PPP faction struggle to place Tarmidi Suhardjo (from PDI-P faction) and Chudlarv (PPP faction) as candidates of Governor and Deputy Governor. In the following election process, the political interaction between various factions inside the DPRD DKI Jakarta taken place very fierce, where the ability to take advantage of chances became very important_ PPP faction only took account the support based on the result of 1999 election, hence they miscalculate and the PPP faction's candidates, Sutiyoso-Chudlarr, did not get enough support. Meanwhile the candidate Sutiyoso-Fauzi Bowo got the supports from PDI-P, PG and PKP factions as well as Megawati Soekarno Putti's recommendation, the President at that time. This made Sutiyoso and Fauzi Bowo won the DKI's Governor Election for the period of 2002-2007.