ABSTRACT

Background, Two focuss of this research is a patronage and recruitment of

bureaucracy. First, a patronage is a vertical dyadic, i.e, an alliance between one person
who is superior which is called a patron to the the inferior person which called clients. a
patronage is based on distribution of interest, which always there unequality of
distribution. And second, recruitment is a selection process to search a new member or
employee for some occupy in an organization or office. Based on definition of patronage
and recruitment this study wants to analyse how the patronage concept used by governor
for recruitment of bureaucracy in local government. cause in this study wiil look the
recruitment not only process selection for a new member but also for a new client in
patronage. A new governor will be a patron for bureaucracy and the recruitment is the
instrument of patron to selected the new clients in bureaucracy. For the cases, In
Indonesia there are law of number 5 in 2014 in the legislation of republic Indonesia
which give the decentralization of authority to the leader in the local government to get
the authority in making appointments for the local bureaucracy. So, based on that law
means that the governor has the legality to exercise the patronage concept in the
bureaucracy recruitment to choose the new client in the local government. The purpose of
this research is to analyze the role of governor (leader of local government) in the process
of recruitment in local structural officers and also to analyze the pattern of recruitment
system structural officer in the provincial government of South Borneo. Methods, This
study will use a qualitative approach, because this study want to get a deeper analyses for
the role of governor and the pattern of recruitment system in local bureaucracy. The
subject of research is governor (leader of local government) of South Borneo and for the
object research is the bureaucracy of structural officials in the governmental of South
Borneo. This study will use three data collection technique such as observation,
interview, and literature study. For observation, this study will observe the province
governmental officer especially in staffing instance. for the interview, there are four
informan such as the head of local staffing instances, the governor, some of the public
officer in the bureaucracy, and also for the recruitment system, the informan are the
selection team especially from the academic background. And the literature study, for all
of study about patronage, bureaucracy, politics, and the recruitment. The results, there
are sixth findings of this research which related to patronage and bureaucracy
recruitment. The first finding is a strong role of Governor by rule of law will create a
patronage system in political bureaucracy especially in the recruitment process of
structural officials in South borneo provincial government. Second, when Sahbirin Noor
as a governor of South Borneo got the authority by rule of law in making appointments
for local bureaucracy means that governor as a legitimate patron in local bureaucracy.
Third, a patronage not just for to see the relation between governor and bureaucracy but
patronage as the gate to began the relation between governor and local bureaucracy
especially for new governor for their new period to ruled. Fourth, the reformation and
recruitment of bureaucracy as an instrument by governor to selecting the new clients in
bureaucracy. Fifth, the result of recruitment system are dominate by merit system but also
there are several candidates which selected by patronage system. And sixth, this research
has found that the recruitment system of bureaucracy in south borneo governmental used
mixed system between Patronage System and the Merit System from the the process till
the result of recruitment structural officials government in South Borneo.

Keywords: patronage, recruitment, bureaucracy.