Nahdatul Ulama' (NU) and Identity Politics Practice in The 2019 Presidential Election(Study in Paciran Lamongan Village)

Nahdatul Ulama' is a religious social organization that has the largest followers in Indonesia and KH Ma'ruf Amin is a high leader of Nahdatul Ulama' who in the 2019 election paired with Joko Widodo ran for vice president of the Republic of Indonesia for the 2019-2014 period. see and analyze the role of Nahdatul Ulama in winning the candidate pair Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin in Paciran Lamongan village, which is the base of Muhammadiyah? This research seeks to analyze the identity politics practices carried out by Nahdatul Ulama' in Paciran Lamongan village to win the presidential candidate pair Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin. The research results show that the winning process carried out by Nahdatul Ulama' not only used the structural and network resources it had but also used identity politics practices which were used as a tool of political struggle by Nahdatul Ulama' to win Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin.