<p class="Default">This research was motivated by the widespread recruitment of regional government officials in North Maluku who were ethnocentric in the era of regional autonomy especially the regional government of Ternate City. So that gave birth to unrest in the middle of the community or cause social cohesion among ethnic groups with other ethnic groups in Ternate City.</p><p class="Default">This research uses the ethnocentrism theory of W.G. Summer in 1906 to describe the so-called gambudicial attitudes <em>between in-groupos </em>and <em>out-groupos</em>. The attitude, habits, and behavior of the "us" group are more suprior than the "you" group. Azra in 2001, tends to lead to a decline in national autonomy. Autonomy tends to encourage the strengthening of local sentiments and identities, which in the Indonesian context can be seen from the increasing sentiment of 'sons of the region' in filling positions at the local level. In fact, multi-ethnic nation states will be seriously threatened if provincialism or <em>local nationalism </em>amends with<em> ethnocentrism</em>, so that it becomes <em>ethno-nationalism</em>.</p><p class="Default">This study uses qualitative methods, while the data analysis technique uses descriptive analysis. This study uses two methods of data collection namely: <em>First,</em> in-depth interviews with informants who understand the process of recruiting public officials who are ethnocentric in nature. <em>Second, </em>through documents with data collection, by reading, and analyzing materials that are relevant to research problems, such as books, articles from the internet, texts, and archives related to research topics.</p><p class="Default">The results showed that: <em>First,</em> the recruitment of public officials in Ternate City was ethnocentric. <em>Secondly,</em> the officials recruited to become public officials in Ternate City mostly have Tidore ethnic identity backgrounds. Third, officials from the Tidore ethnic group mostly occupy strategic (wet) positions, while officials outside the Tidore ethnicity occupy dry positions. <em>Fourth,</em> officials outside of the Tidore ethnic group who obtained positions turned out that some wives or husbands had identities as ethnic Tidore.</p><p class="Default">The theoretical implication shows that the recruitment of public officials in the city of Ternate is ethnocentric, because the ruling ethnic groups perceive themselves to be more superior or superior to the non-powerful ethnic groups. In addition, the recruitment of officials who are ethnocentric in nature, so that the ethnic groups in power can give birth to a new leadership cadre so that they can maintain the power of their ethnic identity. However, it turned out that behind this ethnocentrism recruitment of officials, it caused tremendous social upheaval between one ethnic group and another. This has an impact on the system of government in Ternate which runs ineffective and ineffective.</p><p class="Default"><strong> </strong></p><p class="Default"><strong>Keywords: Ethnocentrism, Regional Autonomy</strong></p>
Habonaron Do Bona and Sapangambei Manoktok Hitei Symbols Interpreted as Simalungun Ethnic Identity in Regional AutonomyHabonaron Do Bona and Sapangambei Manoktok Hitei Symbols that Interpreted as Simalungun Ethnic Identity in Regional Autonomy