Abstract:
Party is organizing political participation of society in order to meet its
aspiration. Stability party, party’s power and party system are very depend
on institution degree and its participation. Wide participation collaborated
by low degree of political party institutions will produce anomic party and
violence. Contrary, low degree participation tend make weak politic party vis
a vis other politic rule and amount of social power.
Convention be a new strategy in Indonesia. It happens because some political
parties in Indonesia tend give opportunity president candidate to their
chairman. Political party paradigm in Indonesia show that the chairman is
president candidate.
Response and enthusiasm of society to convention as new idea that oriented to
democracy. It can be shown by amount of people register as convention
participants. It described that convention idea success and get empower party
to win election in 2004.