The Representation of Cina on Indonesian Twitter

Abstract

Ahead of the 2019 presidential and vice presidential election contestation, Chinese issues arose in Twitter and becomes discourse on it. Debate on this issue is particularly related to "Is it proper to 'get a place' and is compatible with Indonesian identity?" However, pragmatically the disagreement is not limited to dialectics that occurs in society, but is often associated with efforts to support or reject certain presidential candidates. Thus, representation on social media can be a "gateway" for acts of violence. For this reason, the representation needs to be revealed by using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and operating Appraisal System (AS). The data were collected from tweets and responds between September 23, 2018 until April 13, 2019. Based on the data revealed that term Cina was not used appropriately. It is sometimes used to generalize between China as a state and Chinese as a race and is used to control netizens as well.