Kepemimpinan selalu menarik dikaji dalam konteks efektivitasnya sebagai pemimpin bangsa dan politik terutama ketika berkontribusi pada pembangunan bangsa. Kompleksitas dan fragmentasi kepemimpinmenyebabkan mberkembangnya pendlitian untuk mengukir kompetensi dan kualitas pemimpin idel. Variasi gaua kepemimpinan menglami polarisasi bail dalam perspektof timur-barat, atau transformasional-transaksional. Praktik gau kepemimpinan yng lemah dan kiat juga mengindikasikan permasalahan bangsa secara internal dan eksternaln, terlebih gaya kepemimpinan terintegrasi dengan gaua komunikasi. Cakupan pemimpin ideal menjadi diskursus yang dimediasi dalam forum komunitas offline dan online.mSeiring dengan semakin berkembangnya forum komunitas online dan ubiquitous serta mediamorfosis media baru, kajian ini mendiskusikan pentingnya pemimpin ideal versi anggot forum komunitas online seperti kaskuser. Melalui penggabungan metode analisis isi kualitatif dan netnografi (labelling netnogrfi) untuk merekam isu-isu kepemimpinan ideal dalam wacana forum komunitas online, ditemukan bahwa nilai-nilai kepemimpian ketimuran seperti ke-bapak-an, tanpa pamrih, pengayom, sederhana, merakyat, sabar dan tulus merupakan karakter pemimpin ideal bagi Indonesia. Kemudian dengan menggabungkan konsep dan temuan terkait gaya kepemimpinan transformasional-transaksional high context-low context menghasilkan empat kuadran gaya komunikasimkepemimpinan versi kaskuser.

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Leadership always attract to examine in context of its efectivity as leader for nation and politic especially when contributed to development nation. Complextiy and leaderhip fragmentation had caused developing reseech to examine competition and quality of ideal leader. Various style of leaderhip have polarization both in east-west perspective and transformational-transactional. Practive of leaderhip style were feeble and solid which also indicate problem nation internally and externally, especially leadership style integrated with communication style. Scope for ideal leader was being discourse mediated in forum of offline and online community. By developing forum of online community and ebiquitous and mediamorfosis of new media, this study discussed important of ideal leader version of member forum online community such as kaskuser. By mergering content analysis method and netnography (labelling netnography) to record issues ideal leadership in discourse forum of online community, had found value of eastern leadership such as fatherly, unprofit, secure, simple, populist, patient, and sincere were character of ideal leadership for Indonesia. Then, by integrating concept and fact-finding of transformational-transactional leadership style and culture of communicatio style in high context-low context obtained four quadrant of leadership communication style version kaskuser.