Journal of Local Government Issues
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): March

Critical Discourse Analysis of Technology-Based Village Government System in Bengkalis Riau

Rijalul Fikri (Department of Government Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Islam Riau)
Muhammad Faisal Amrillah (Department pf Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Islam Riau)
Budi Mulianto (Department of Government Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Islam Riau)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Apr 2020

Abstract

This study aims to comprehend on how the discourse of e-government system in villages of Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province, by using the method of Foucauldian discourse analysis. Thus, discourse of this paper is the implementation of e-governance system forming the relation between power and society through the process of definition, isolation and justification. In the e-government system’s operation in Bengkalis, there are two remarkable interpretation as follows: firstly, for villages that adopted the e-government system, those involve in the interpretation of dominant discourse which define and justify the discourse of e-government system; and secondly, for villages that have still been in loyal of the local wisdom – “committing to the government system and society life order based on traditional, well known as self-governing community” -, those include in the interpretation of the marginalized discourse that means in the wider discursive context it is the discursive implementation of e-government system. As a logical conclusion, the existing discourse has expressed the state power represented by the effort of e-government system’s employment in which there are the major interpretation of village government categorized in the dominant discourse and the marginalized discourse.  

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Journal Info

Abbrev

LOGOS

Publisher

Subject

Social Sciences

Description

The LOGOS accepts article drafts in the field of local government issues. Papers with following topics (but not limited to): Public Policy, Policy of City Management, Legislation Processes, Disaster Management, Social Movement, Conflict Management, Social Empowerment, and Local Elites of Political ...