"Kemerdekaan Republik lndonesia yang teiah diraih semenjak 1945 masJh menempuh jalan panjang unhlk membawa masyarakat Indonesia mencapai kesejahteraan sosial sebagai cita-cita nasionalnya sebagaimana termaktub dalam UUD 1945, Perkembangan dan kemajuan ekonomi, politik dan budaya belum benar-benar rnendekati kata baik, dan bahkan dalam hal-hal tertentu, menunjukkan kemunduran dari era-era pemerintahan sebelwnnya. Sebagai partai bam GERINDRA telah memperoleh 4,6% perwakiian dan lolos batas minimal parliamentary threshold. Ini merupakan kebanggaan bagi GERINDRA sebagai keberhasilan melaksanakan strategi komunikasi politik kontemporer (meskipun sebagian pimpinan puncak Partai GERINDRA menganggap 4,6% terlatu rendah).
GERINDRA dalam melakukan pemasaran politik di dukung dengan 3 institusi yaitu: (l) Bumas GERINDRA; (2) GERINDRA Media Centre (GMC); dan (3) Konsultan Komunikasi. Ketiganya berkolaborasi sinergis demi terciptanya strategi komunikasi politik yang tepat dan efekrif gWia meraih voters sebanyak-banyaknya.
Secara ilmiah peneJitlan ini bertolak berdasar paradigma subjektivisme. Pendekatan penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif, bersifat deskriptif yang ditulis dalam bentuk sebuah narasi pada bagian analisis informan. Penelitian ini menggaii data empirik melalui indepth interview dengan mekanisme probing. Teknik pemilihan informan adalah purposive judgement artinya peneliti memilih sendiri informannya yang dir.asa memiliki pengetahuan yang menarik dan memiliki pengetahuan yang terkait dengan penelitian.
Penelitian ini akan pula mengungkap di antaranya fungsi kehumasan Partai GERINDRA, fungsi konsultan politik GERINDRA. Strategi kampanye Partai GERINDRA, pencitraan Prabowo Soebianto. pengcmasan pesan-peSan politik GERlNDRA. Peran Gerindra Media Centre (GMC) dalam berkampanye politik melasanakan media relations dan community relations, disertai upaya pengemasan isu-isu politik Partai GERINDRA.
Penelitian ini menjadi jawaban dari pertanyaan bagaimana upaya marketing politik yang dilakukan GERINDRA mampu memenangkan kursi di DPR Rl 4,6%. Dalam penelitian ini ditelaah lebih jauh lagi upaya-upaya teknik pemasaran politik, political advertising dan political public relations.
Secara implisit tesis ini mengandung hipotesa: makin efektif melaksanakan political marketing makln banyak meraih suara Hipotesa ini tidak terbukti, karena asumsi citer/s paribus (terutama profesionalisme KPU) tidak teJPenuhi dan muneulnya fenomena "black swan" ini tidak terbayangkan.
The Independence of the Republic of Indonesia that was proclaimed in 1945, still had a long way to go for bringing the Indonesian people to the goal of realizing social justice, as contained in the 1945 Constitution. The achievements thus far attained in the economic, political, and cultural fields have not yet approached the stipulated. goal, and in certain aspects, had become worse that in the previous government. As anew party, GERJNDRA has gained 4.6 percent of the par1iamentary seats and had passed the parliamentary threshold requirement. This is indeed a grand achjevement for GERINDRA that has been made possible by conducting a contemporary political communications strategy (in spite of some of the top leaders of the GERINDRA Party thinking that 4,6 percent is too low). In conducting of political marketing, the GERINDRA Party is supported by 3 institutions, namely (1} the Public Relations of GERINDRA; (2) the media Centre of GERINDRA; and (3) the Communication Consultant. AU three institutions have in synergy collaborated for attaining the right and effective poUtical communication sttategy that is directed at attracting the largest number of voters. Scientifically, this study is based on the subjectivism paradigm. The approach of this study is qualitative and descriptive, that is written in the fonn of a narration in the infonnant analysis section. This study collects empirical data from ln depth interviews with a probing mechanism. The infunnant selection technique is purpose judgment,in the sense that the researcher himself selects his informant, who is believed to have an attractive information and has the knowledge that is related to the study. This study will also reveal the pubtic relations function, and the political consultant function of the GERINDRA Party, The campaign strategy of the GERINDRA Party covers the imaging of Prabowo Subianto and packaging of political messages of GERINDRA. In the political campaign, the role of the Gerindra Media Centre (GMC) is to conduct media relations and community relations, and to package political issues brought to the surface by the GERlNDRA Party. This study provides the answer to the question on how the polltical marketing ofGERJNDRA has been able to win 4.6 percent of the DPR~RI seats. This study first looks at the technical means in political marketing, political advertising, and in conducting political public relations. This thesis implicitly contains the hypothesis that: the more effective the political marketing efforts, the greater number of votes is obtained. This hypothesis has not been proven because the assumption on the ceteris paribus {mainly professionalism of the KPU/General Election Commission) is not met and the appearance of the "'black swan" was not taken into account."
Depok: Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Indonesia, 2009
