Dinamika Peran Sosial Politik Ulama dan Jawara di Pandeglang Banten

Abstract

The focus on this article is to examine the social and political roles of ulama andjawara in Pandeglang (Banten). But recently, there is a trend that there is a decrease inulama’s political roles in one side, and a highly increase in political roles that are playedby jawara in the other side. Though in the local political constellation jawara dominateulama, but in social power aspect ulama is still the most powerful actor and still dominatejawara. To explore this fact, researcher will analyze it by power relation approaches thatindicate there are a special kind of patron-client relation between ulama and jawara. Inthis research, descriptive qualitative is chosen as the research method with a case study asthe research approach. Some of ulama, jawara, the elders, santri and the common people(the grassroots) are chosen as the informant by the key person technique. Research founda traditional Bantenese patron-client relation between ulama and jawara that influencethe construction of their power relation and the local social and political constellation.