Nostal Nuans Saputri, Catur Suratnoaji
By using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework, this study specifically intends to construe the discursive strategies and to probe for ideological goals behind the media text construction about the former Democrat Party leader, Anas Urbaningrum, corruption case. It focuses on news reporting related to Anas corruption case in Seputar Indonesia (SINDO) daily during February 2014, at the moment when the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) declared him a suspect of Hambalang athlete homestead corruption case. The analysis of this study adopts the Teun Van Dijk's sociocognitive approach that devided the texts into three level of analysis, e.g. text, social cognition, and social context. The data obtained by documenting texts about Anas corruption case in February 2013, in-depth interviews, and literature analysis. The linguistic analysis in the text level concludes that SINDO daily consistently and sistematically presents data showing that Anas' case is more political than criminal. The authors find that SINDO provides considerable political and law analysts' comments supporting its claim that Anas has become a victim of a high political scenario who wants him retreat from his leadership in the beginning of their news texts body. In addition, in the title of the news text, they also put Anas in object position that represent his powerless position. Related to this, SINDO provides less space for counter statement from powerful side in Democrat Party who were allegedly attacking Anas political position. Further, analysis in the level of sociocognitive and social context show that SINDO defends Anas because they believe that Anas victimized by the majority press even before the trial court actually implemented.
Department of Communication Science, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia; Communication Science, UPN Veteran Surabaya, Indonesia
