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

Abstract

The Government of Indonesia has formed a team to accelerate the implementation of the Electronic-Based Government System from the national government to the rural government. The main target is the empowerment of the rural government through a technology-based rural government system. By making an application for the rural government system, like ePlanning, eBudgeting, eProcurement, eAudit, etc. One of the areas that are intensely doing this, is the Bengkalis Regency Government, through the implementation of the Broadband Rural program, almost all rurals in Bengkalis Regency already have websites. The interesting question is does the rural have to understand technology? Does the rural have to implement a technology-based government system? Does the state forget that the rural and they community have a Self Governing System?. This will be answered by using discourse analysis. Because discourse believes that power relations in society influence and shape ways, how knowledge is created. The discourse in this paper is the implementation of a Technology-Based Government System, which is believed to be a tool that forms power relations in society through processes of defining, isolating, justifying. This paper then tries to express the state power represented in its efforts to implement a technology-based Rural government system.