Abstract. The focus on this article is to examine the social and political roles of ulama and jawara in Pandeglang (Banten). But recently, there is a trend that there is a decrease in ulama's political roles in one side, and a highly increase in political roles that are played by jawara in the other side. Though in the local political constellation jawara dominate ulama, but in social power aspect ulama is still the most powerful actor and still dominate jawara. To explore this fact, researcher will analyze it by power relation approaches that indicate there are a special kind of patron-client relation between ulama and jawara. In this research, descriptive qualitative is chosen as the research method with a case study as the research approach. Some of ulama, jawara, the elders, santri and the common people (the grassroots) are chosen as the informant by the key person technique. Research found a traditional Bantenese patron-client relation between ulama and jawara that influence the construction of their power relation and the local social and political constellation.Keywords: ulama, jawara, social and political roles, social and political constellation, power relation Abstrak. Fokus dalam tulisan ini adalah mengkaji peran sosial-politik ulama dan jawara di Pandeglang (Banten). Saat ini, terdapat kecenderungan adanya penurunan dalam peran politik ulama di satu sisi, dan peningkatan yang sangat tinggi dalam peran politik yang dimainkan jawara di sisi lain. Meskipun dalam konstelasi politik lokal jawara mendominasi ulama, tetapi dari sisi aspek kekuasaan sosial ulama masih merupakan aktor yang paling berkuasa dan masih mendominasi jawara. Untuk mengeksplorasi fakta ini, peneliti akan menganalisisnya melalui pendekatan relasi kekuasaan yang mengindikasikan terdapat suatu jenis relasi patron-klien khas antara ulama dan jawara. Dalam penelitian ini, deskriptif kualitatif dipilih sebagai metode penelitian dengan studi kasus sebagai pendekatannya. Beberapa ulama, jawara, sesepuh (tokoh masyarakat), santri dan masyarakat biasa dipilih sebagai informannya melalui teknik key person berdasarkan strategi purposive sampling. Penelitian menemukan suatu relasi patron-klien khas Banten antara ulama dan jawara yang memengaruhi konstruksi relasi kekuasaannya dan konstelasi sosial politik lokal.