Jurnal Pekommas
Vol 3, No 2 (2018): Oktober 2018

Democracy Issue Usage via Website by Radical Group in Opposing Indonesian Government

Karman karman (Unknown)
Djoko Waluyo (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Oct 2018

Abstract

This article dealt with the issue of how radical groups include Indonesian government as a democratic country, through the practice of language usage in online media. That radical group is Jamaah Ansharu Tauhid (JAT). We collect data from the web page (www.ansharuttauhid.com) with the word of ‘democracy’ in the proses of query. We determine contents containing government representation on democratic issue. We analysed the text with an analysis model of representation of social actors and social action as Theo VanLeeuwen introduced. We conclude that JAT include the Indonesian government as outsiders in the context of religion. The government is different from JAT in the context of religion. JAT delegitimized Indonesian government with some language techniques. JAT symbolized Indonesia government as “thoghut”, and included it in the web contents negatively (e.g., by pseudo title, epithets, etc.). On the contrary, JAT appreciated terrorism perpetrators by harnessing honorification technique. The inclusion and delegitimacy of the Indonesian government depart from religion as an idiosyncratic system of meaning.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

pekommas

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Pekommas is a journal published by the BBPSDMP Kominfo Makassar with the aim of disseminating information on scientific developments in communication, informatics and mass media. The manuscript published in this journal is derived from research and scientific study conducted by researchers, ...