Abstract:
The reformation that happens in Indonesian started in 1998 causes the change of government’s
structure and function in national and local level with autoritative character changes to be more
democratic. One of reformation result is implementation of Region Autonomy based on the Law Nr. 22
Year 1999 and becomes the Law Nr. 32 year 2004 that gives space more free for democratic
institutions in region as the change of Law Nr. 5 Year 1974 that wants the control of central on region.
This study tries to see how the one-sidedness attitude change of Region Indonesian Legislative
Assembly in Riau Archipelago Regency is against society before reformation that is signed the central
control on Riau Archipelago Regency through Batam’s autority concept and post reformation with
autonomy concept that gives space more free for Region Indonesian Legislative Assembly to struggle
for society interest in region. This study uses qualitative approach by using deep interview, examining
literature and document and then analyzed in qualitative descriptive. The research finding shows that in
certain level has happened institution atttitude change of Region Indonesian Legislative Assembly of
Riau Archipelago Regency that sides with society in reformation era than pra reformation, hence based
on a part of society’s sidedness is still minimum or far from it should be.
