Identity Political Power Relations Network Based on Social Capital: Case Study on the Regional Head Election in North Maluku Province

: Power relations with the application of social capital-based identity political networks in every local political process (North Maluku) are so strong. This can be observed from the never-ending dynamics of local politics. Local actors who have networks and power relations, both to the center and to political parties, often dominate their influence down to bureaucratic institutions. The social capital that they already have, is collected, cared for, and developed to become the basis of identity politics. Identity politics is also widely instilled, strengthened which indirectly has the potential to undermine and even eliminate other identities that live in society. Ethnic identity politics in North Maluku has always been produced to gain political support from its ethnic group. The emergence of the power of ethnic identity in the North Maluku regional elections has slowly shifted the power of the elite (the sultanate and bureaucrats) which have so far been very dominant. Meanwhile, for power relations, the author uses the Power Relations Theory according to Foucault, it is not understood in the context of ownership by an institutional group as a mechanism that ensures citizens' submission to the state. Power is also not a mechanism of domination as a form of power over others in a relationship between the dominating and the dominated or the powerful and the powerless. Power is not like the form of sovereignty of a state or legal institution which presupposes external domination or control over individuals or groups. The results of studies in the field found that identity politics plays dynamically and penetrates deep and works in various institutions by utilizing social capital (networks, norms, beliefs) owned by local actors. With the activities carried out by local actors, identity politics, especially ethnicity and clan in North Maluku, is still a strong basis in gaining existing power.

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