ABSTRACT DEA ABDILLA, 2015 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION in REALIZING the TRANSPARENCY of PUBLIC SERVICES in the CITY of BANDA ACEH, Faculty of social sciences and Political Sciences University (vii-46), pp., tabl, bibl, app. (Dr. Syarifuddin, SH, M. Hum, Sufyan, Sh., M. H). Transparency or oppenes is part of the principles of governance that often became a benchmark in assessing the conduct of the public service in the Government of the views of good or bad service given to the public. Successful or whether the Organization of the Government in terms of providing service to the community. Transparency being one important measure of good governance. The goal in this research is to know the system of governance in realizing the transparency of public services in the city of Ban da Aceh. In addition the study also aims to find out other forms of public participation in realizing the transparency of public services in the city of Banda Aceh. In this thesis data collection is carried out by means of field research (field research) that is carried out by means of interview respondents and informants. To get the data skunder through research libraries (library research) that is doing the research to get the secondary data is done by reading the books, legislation, and other reading materials. The results showed that the City Government Banda Aceh in policy transparency organization of Government, perform two -way communication with the public that is directly and indirectly. Directly the public can participate through the activities of the Musrenbang and Musrena. While indirectly through Representatives of the city Banda Aceh, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), print and electronic media in the form of the website and SMS service of public complaints. The Government of the city of Banda Aceh are advised in order to devise a better strategy and more mature in order to realize the transparency in Banda Aceh. Expected to Governments and the DPRK in order to be wise in addressing various asapirasi within the community as well as able to establish good communication with the Government of the city of Banda Aceh and the DPRK. Keywords: Transparency, Patisipasi Society, The City Of Banda Aceh.