Pencalonan jalur perseorangan pada pilkada langsung di Kabupaten Garut cenderung mengalami penurunan. Dibandingkan pelaksanaan pilkada 2008 dan pilkada 2013, partisipasi bakal pasangan calon dalam pilkada Kabupaten Garut 2018 menunjukkan angka yang paling sedikit. Permasalahan tersebut dikarenakan adanya aturan peningkatan syarat minimal dukungan yang harus dipenuhi oleh bakal pasangan calon sesuai UU Pilkada Nomor 10 Tahun 2016. Kajian ini berfokus pada peran modal politik, modal sosial dan modal ekonomi bagi bakal pasangan calon Suryana dan Wiwin Suwindaryati dalam pencalonan jalur perseorangan pada pilkada Kabupaten Garut tahun 2018, melalui teori modal Pierre Bourdieu (1992) terutama terkait dengan modal politik, modal sosial dan modal ekonomi serta relasi kepemilikan modal dengan pencalonan jalur perseorangan. Untuk memperkuat teori modal politik Pierre Bourdieu dalam penelitian ini, didukung oleh teori modal politik oleh John A. Booth dan Patricia Bayer Richard (1998). Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif melalui wawancara mendalam, dan studi literatur. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa peran modal politik yang terakumulasi dengan kekuatan modal sosial dan modal ekonomi, memengaruhi kekuatan politik dan strategi pasangan calon Suryana dan Wiwin Suwindaryati dalam memenuhi syarat minimal dukungan pada tahap pencalonan perseorangan. dalam pilkada Kabupaten Garut 2018. Nominations for the individual path during the direct election in Garut district tend to fall. In comparison to the 2008 and 2013 elections, the number of individual candidate pairs participating in the 2018 Garut district election was the lowest. This problem is due to the rules for increasing the minimum support requirements that must be met by prospective pairs of candidates according to Election Law Number 10 of 2016. This study focuses on the role of political capital, social capital, and economic capital for the prospective candidates, Suryana and Wiwin Suwindaryati, in the nomination of the individual path in the 2018 Garut district election. Bourdieu's theory of capital (1992), mainly related to political capital, social capital, and economic capital, as well as the relationship between capital ownership and the nomination of the individual path. To strengthen Pierre Bourdieu's theory of political capital in this study, it is supported by the theory of political capital by John A. Booth and Patricia Bayer Richard (1998). This research was conducted using qualitative methods through in-depth interviews and literature studies. The results of this study indicate that the role of political capital, which is accumulated with the strength of social capital and economic capital, affects the political power and strategy of the candidate pair of Suryana and Wiwin Suwindaryati in meeting the minimum support requirements at the individual nomination stage in the 2018 Garut Regency Election. |