Teater Rakyat : Alternatif Komunikasipolitik Bagi Pemilih Marginal : Studi Kasus di Dusun Sembir dan Ngronggo Salatiga

Abstract

Mass media should become an alteration bearer in the process of democracy in Indonesia. The alteration is hoped since mass media has significant role in understanding and utterring the society's needs and matters in any level without exception. The role enables media as a bridge between society and electoral community to dialog and negociate about the needs which should be faced and fullfiled as the representatives. However, the ownership of media, as if brings media to become powerless agent which submit to the equity owner only. Media, either as the tools or messages in the legislative elections in Indonesia, on April 9th, 2014, gives a description that the mainstream of it is so obedient to the mandate of owner who has politically interference on it. The marginal community does not get the place even to utter their aspiration. This research is important since it aims to create an alternative media which partied to marginal society, using citizen theatrical media. Action research is a method in this research as an effort involving society in the completion of their matters . The result shows that theater can be an alternative media for marginal society to understand and utter their needs which oftenly strucked down. However, in this research, the planning and implementation's matters are also found, therefore, it is hoped that this research is able to open the opportunity for the next action research