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Abstrak aris munandar 2016 the anomaly of democracy and delegitimation (a case on the indirect village head (keuchik) election in panton village of teunom district of aceh jaya regency faculty of social and political science of syiah kuala (viii,57, pp, tabl, bibl, app) (maimun, ma) the process of indirect village head (keuchik) election causes a delegitimation of keuchik leadership. there is a perspective from community that keuchik who serves is tuha peut (council of four leaders) keuchik, official keuchik, not community keuchik. this study aimed to find out the delegitimation of keuchik leadership in panton village, and to find out the community attitude toward the delegitimized keuchik leadership. this study was conducted by using qualitative method and descriptive approach. the data were collected trough interview and documentation. the result of the study showed that the keuchik election with unilateral deliberation by tuha peut and villange officials without incluiding the community caused the delegitimation of keuchik leadership. it brought an impact toward keuchik’s performance, incluiding accountability, transparency, and responsiveness. the keuchik’s leadership was not able to realize accountability, transparency, and responsiveness. the community has been received the delegitimized keuchik leadership unwillingly considering no keuchik no keuchik in the village. however, the community care and participation in community social activities was decreased dramatically, like communal work, festifity, and meetings, and political apathy that the community did not care to the village officials in running goverment whell. the officials of village government is supposed to be more open and include community in all aspect of goverment, especially relating to public interest, and the comunity is also supposed to support the village government, who was still young and lack of experience in running government wheel in order to increase the community welfare. keywords: anomaly of democracy, and leadership delegitimation.