PETAHANA INDEPENDEN DALAM PERSPEKTIF POWERCUBE (STUDI KASUS MAJUNYA PASANGAN PETAHANA ROMI HARYANTO – ROBBY NAHLIANSYAH DALAM PILKADA SERENTAK KABUPATEN TANJUNG JABUNG TIMUR 2020)

Based on Gaventa's powercube theory, this study examines Romi HaryantoRobby Nahliansyah's progress during the simultaneous regional elections (pilkada)
in Tanjung Jabung Timur Regency in 2020 along an independent path. In this study,
the formulation of the problem is based on the powercube theory and takes into
account that the incumbent couple is a cadre of Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) and
taken into consideration the history of PAN. In this study, descriptive qualitative
research methods are used. Interviews, document analysis, and bibliography are
used to collect data.
It is evident from this study that the relationship between level dimensions
and spatial dimensions heavily impacts the incumbent's choice to advance the
independent path during the 2020 simultaneous regional elections. The dimension
of form, including forms of power, is a way for the incumbent couple to advance
toward winning simultaneous elections on the Independent platform. Independent incumbents realize that all the consequences of running independently is losing the
party machinery that has supported them in the past.
This dimension of form shows how the incumbent governs and wins the
simultaneous regional elections on an independent path by using forms of power
such as visible, hidden, and invisible power. Consequently, this indirectly answers
the question of why the PAN Party, which has 17 of the 30 seats in the DPRD that
could be won, did not use it because of problems in the level dimension.