ABSTRAK Tesis ini menelaah penerapan strategi pemasaran politik dan sebab-sebabkekalahan Partai SIRA. Pemilu 2009 merupakan pemilu pertama pasca damai diAceh dengan keikutsertaan 6 (enam) partai lokal sebagai kontestan. Lahirnyapartai lokal tidak terlepas dari hasil perundingan damai antara Pemerintah RI danGAM, 15 Agustus 2005 di Helnsiki, Findlandia.Partai SIRA lahir dari gerakan sosial SIRA (Sentral InformasiReferendum Aceh) yang mentransformasikan diri menjadi partai politik.Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus.Mengingat Partai Lokal di Indonesia hanya ada di Aceh dan menjadi instrumenpolitik resmi para pihak untuk menyuarakan aspirasi melalui jalur politik.Strategi-strategi pemasaran sudah diterapkan SIRA dalam pemenanganpemilu. Dengan mempertimbangkan kondisi masyarakat yang telah berubah dankemajuan tehnologi informasi dan komunikasi. Tapi hal itu berlangsung alamiahdan masih belum cukup.Sebagai Partai Politik Lokal, SIRA tidak mampu membangunposisioning, ideologi, dan diferensiasi dengan partai lain untuk menunjukkanidentitasnya. SIRA menerapkan model Market Oriented Party (MOP) ala LessMarshment (2001) sebagai karakter partai, dimana untuk menang dalam pemilu,harus merancang produk-produk politik yang sesuai kebutuhan (needs), keinginan(wants), dan tuntutan (demands) pemilih.Sukses stori SIRA sebagai gerakan sosial tidak diikuti saat menjadipartai. Kegagalan Partai SIRA juga dipengaruhi oleh fakta khusus sebagai daerahpost konflik. Perdamaian Aceh dianggap berhasil dan berkontribusi positifterhadap perkembangan demokrasi, tapi Aceh masih menjadi pasar yangterdistorsi (defective democracy). Penerapan strategi pemasaran politik padamasyarakat post conflict yang pilihan kekerasan dan teror masih kebiasaantidaklah efektif. Karena domain kekerasan menjadi lebih dominan danmempengaruhi psikologi dalam menentukan preferensi pilihan politik. ABSTRACT This study aimed to analyze the strategic implementation of politicalmarketing and the cause of failure of SIRA (the central information for Acehreferendum) as a local political party in Aceh in the legislative election in 2009.The 2009 election was the first election in the era of peace in Aceh which wasparticipated by 6 local parties. The establishment of those parties was supportedby the peace talks between the government of Indonesia and the free AcehMovement on 15th August 2005 in Helsinki, Finland.The party of SIRA was transformed from the social movement. Thestudy was conducted by using a qualitative method through a study case approach.The study case would be interesting since the emerging of local parties onlyoccurred in Aceh province. Later those parties are functioned as a legal instrumentto vote the people aspiration.The SIRA had implemented several marketing strategies to win theelection by taking into account the society condition and the changes ininformation and technology. However, the process run as natural and was notsufficient to win the election.As a local political party, SIRA cannot perform its own identity,ideology, and therefore it cannot differentiate with other parties. The SIRA hadused the Market Oriented Party (MOP) from Less Marshment (2001) as the partycarácter which was believed to win the election. The party should design politicalproducts based on needs, wants and demands of the people.It can be said that the successfullness of SIRA as social movementwas not followed by the same condition in the era of political party. The defeat ofSIRA was influenced by the facts post conflict. The peace in Aceh is success andcontributes positively to the developmnet of democracy. However, Aceh alsodevelopes as a defective market for democracy. There were violance and pressurethat forced the people to vote a certain party. Thus, the implementation of politicalmarketing was not effective in such condition. |