Abstract
ABSTRACT
 Discourse is a unit of language in which its form is longer than a sentence including the vast majority of everyday communication; in addition, it ussually employes specific kinds of language as well as infromation structures to deliver specific purposes. In order to identify the structure and purpose of a discourse, the present research employed Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze an educational speech in May 2nd, 2016 delivered by the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education, Mohamad Nasir in the celebration of the National Education Day of Indonesia. The result of the analysis showed how the speech was constructed in form of macrostructure, superstructure, and microstructure revealed how the social power was used by symbolic elites to invite all parties in educational field to join together in reforming educational system of Indonesia to be better than what had been conducted by previous partisans in the past. 
 Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Indonesian Ministry’s speech; educational speech; National Education Day
Highlights
Education is a means to improve quality of a nation throught the imporvement of human resources
The struggle to better education system in Indonesia has been done since colonialism era by the father of education in Indonesia, Ki Hajar Dewantara in which he opposed educational policy during Dutch colonialism era which only concerned the educational system to noble children as well as Dutch-born children
Nasir since it was related to the previous mentioned all elements of higher statement stating that Indonesia, education and colleges in which it the educational system, referred to the students, lecturers, faced issue on the lack of both its staffs, as well as management of quality and quantity that should be higher education and college
Summary
Education is a means to improve quality of a nation throught the imporvement of human resources. Nasir since it was related to the previous mentioned all elements of higher statement stating that Indonesia, education and colleges in which it the educational system, referred to the students, lecturers, faced issue on the lack of both its staffs, as well as management of quality and quantity that should be higher education and college.
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