“…Newspaper coverage of Muslims in western newspapers, especially British and American, has increased dramatically after the 9/11 attacks (Chuang & Roemer, 2013;Kumar, 2012). Numerous studies across disciplines on how western media portray Muslims also have been conducted in different geo-political and cultural contexts, such as in Oceanian countries (Kabir & Bourk, 2012), Europe (Steiner, 2015), Britain (Saeed, 2007) and America (Nacos & Torres-Reyna, 2007), with various analytical tools including content analysis (Trevino, Kanso, A. M., & Nelson, 2010), visual framing analysis (Fahmy & Kim, 2008), and critical This study aims to investigate the construction of Indonesian Muslims and Islam in American press. Islam in American mainstream media is viewed as a homogeneous entity (Said, 2008) and stereotyped as the antithesis of America (Chuang & Roemer, 2013).…”