PROSES PEMBENTUKAN KOHESIVITAS KELOMPOK KOMUNITAS MOTOR MIDNIGHT SQUAD YOGYAKARTA DI MASA PANDEMI COVID – 19 TAHUN 2020

Midnight Squad Yogyakarta motorcycle community is a community that contains individuals with an interest or hobby in two-wheeled automotive, namely motorcycles. Have activities aimed at forming cohesiveness among members. Members are an important factor for a community to create group cohesiveness. This study aims to describe and analyze the process of forming group cohesiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic and what factors can affect group cohesiveness Midnight Squad Yogyakarta motorcycle community. This research is a descriptivequalitative research and data collection method is in the form of in-depth interviews and documentation to 10 members of Midnight Squad Yogyakarta motorcycle community. After obtaining the data, then data analysis will be carried out with data reduction techniques, data presentation and conclusions. The results showed that the process of forming the cohesiveness of Midnight Squad Yogyakarta motorcycle community group during the COVID-19 pandemic started from the formation stage by the founders when holding non-formal activities due to conflict with the inconvenience of being in a motorcycle club that had strict rules, they agreed to create a community logo that printed into a sticker and affixed to the members' motorbikes as well as regular coffee ground activities on Friday nights. The next stage is a conflict of misunderstandings, differences in interests in the community are overcome by activities such as motorbikes, rolling city and kopdar. At the stage of normalizing the conflict, more efforts must be made in the form of a warning. The supporting factors for the cohesiveness of Midnight Squad Yogyakarta motorcycle community are activities attended by members, then the inhibiting factor is members who have different interests in the community. Media to interact in the form of direct face-to-face media including oral media, during the COVID-19 pandemic, alternative media were WhatsApp and Discord social media applications.