Posters Containing the Rejection Toward the RKUHP in 2019: The Demonstartion Held by University Students

Abstract

At the end of 2014-2019 legislative periods, members of the House of Representatives made controversial constitutions, in which if passed, it will threaten civil liberties, among other things, especially the amendment of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law. This situation makes students conduct a demonstration against RKUHP in front of the Parliament Building. There are several posters that attract attention in this demonstration. This study aims to describe the level of communicative students and pragmatic functions that are reflected in posters during demonstration made by students. This study uses qualitative methods with content analysis techniques. The data are observed from a number of banners and posters containing the rejection of the RKUHP and the KPK Law. The results of the analysis showed communicative level of the posters made by the participants were very high. Only a few posters are not communicative.