Abstract

Samarinda, the capital city of East Kalimantan province are inhabited by various ethnic groups. Friction between residents and groups are frequent. Small conflict between residents involving different ethnic groups may widen into conflict of ethnic, religion, race, and inter group relationship called SARA. This study aims to identify potential conflicts with SARA nuances in Samarinda city through citizens’ conversation discourse in Facebook group called ‘Bubuhan Samarinda’ (FBS). Identification of conversation was analyzed through FBS group. The FBS discourse represents the issue within Samarinda citizens. On the contrary, the opinion within FBS group influences citizens’ life. This paper used critical discourse analysis from Fairclough. The data were gathered from the discourse conversation among FBS group members. The result shows that the conversations tend to use primordial statement dominated by ethnic factor. The primordialism sounds like propaganda of one ethnic group. There are the provocations of conflict between indigenous and the migrants, that shows social jealousy. There is also a stigma that immigrants only exploit the wealth of Borneo, which becomes a main problem in Samarinda. The potential violence arises from the existence of ethnic organization. Samarinda adalah ibu kota Provinsi Kalimantan Timur yang dihuni oleh beragam suku. Gesekan-gesekan antarwarga dan kelompok sering terjadi. Konflik kecil antarwarga melibatkan kesukuan dapat melebar ke konflik SARA. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi potensi konflik bernuansa SARA di Kota Samarinda melalui wacana percakapan warga dalam grup Facebook ‘Bubuhan Samarinda’ (FBS). Identifikasi percakapan warga melalui grup FBS.Wacana yang terbentuk dalam FBS merepresentasikan isu yang berkembang dalam kehidupan warga Kota Samarinda. Begitu pula sebaliknya, opini yang terbentuk dalam grup FBS mempengaruhi kehidupan warga. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis wacana kritis Model Fairclough.Data penelitian diambil dari wacana percakapan anggota grup FBS. Teknik analisis data menggunakan model interaktif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya potensi konflik bernuansa SARA yang didominasi faktor kesukuan. Hal itu didukung oleh tingginya primordialisme warga. Munculnya propaganda bahwa suku tertentu harus disegani. Adanya provokasi antara suku asli dengan pendatang yang lebih banyak dipicu kecemburuan sosial. Terbentuknya stigma bahwa pendatang menjadi biang masalah di Kota Samarinda karena hanya mengeksploitasi kekayaan Kalimantan. Potensi kekerasan menguat karena keberadaan organisasi massa yang mendasarkan pada kesukuan.

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