Positive-Self and Negative-Other Representation in the Online News Behind Indonesia’s Anti-Chinese Riots and Indonesia Turns Its Chinese into Scapegoats

Setiawan, Kiantoro Andiek; Chojimah, Nurul; Khasanah, Ismatul

doi:10.21776/ub.alphabet.2018.01.01.07

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“…A study on ideology and lexical choice has been conducted by He and Zhou (2015) and Setiawan, et al (2018). Their study found that the ideology of the newspaper through lexical choices have an impact on the content of the news even though the news reports are based on the same incident.…”

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The Linguistic Representation of Moluccas Riots in Ambon’s Local Newspaper (Siwalima)

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Riots in Moluccas were one of the biggest conflicts in Indonesia that occurred in 2000-2002, no wonder the incident was a concern of many parties, especially the mass media. However, the mass media is also not free from bias because there are ideologies that can affect the content of the news. For this reason, researchers conducted a study on the representation of the Moluccas riots in Siwalima. The focus of this research is on problem of the study, how was the linguistic representation of the Moluccas riots in Siwalima?the objective of the study is to investigate the linguistic representation of Moluccas riots in Siwalima.This study used a qualitative method with Fairclough's (1995) model of Critical Discourse Analysis to help on the process of data analysis. The data used was linguistic representation of Moluccas riots in Siwalima. The researchers found that the linguistic representation of the Moluccas riots in Siwalima highlights more about the incompetence of the government and the military in dealing with the conflict. Hence, the military was considered to have favored only one particular group, even participated in extending the conflict and making native Moluccan victims of the conflict. The condition of Moluccas at that time was also represented as a gloomy event.

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