Indonesian Media Framing of Reportage on the Crimean Peninsula Crisis

Mochamad Aviandy,Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan,Silva Tenrisara Pertiwi Isma

doi:10.31940/soshum.v11i3.267-278

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https://doi.org/10.31940/soshum.v11i3.267-278

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This research investigates how one of the mainstream media in Indonesia frames Russia in its reportage. One of the selected cases is the 2014 Crimean Peninsula crisis. The Crimean Peninsula Crisis was a major international event that reported comprehensively by Kompas. This research will reveal Kompas’ bias in its reportage on Crimea and the factors that underlie the bias. In investigating the issue, this research uses Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. It follows Fairclough method of critical discourse analysis by using text as a discourse. It is found that as one of the mainstream media in Indonesia, Kompas reportage is not neutral as it depicts Russia through a negative frame. Analysis on semiotic factors, intertextuality, and how the media bias could be handled are the focuses of this research.

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Discussions on international relations between Russia, Indonesia, and Crimea cannot be detached from a pivotal moment taking place in 2014, which was the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine
Heywood found that in reporting the Syrian conflict, for instance, Eastern European news focuses on the sufferings of war victims while Russian news focuses on the issue of territorial security
SOCIAL DEVIATION AND RUSSIA AS AN AGGRESSOR: KOMPAS’ DOMINANT INTERPRETATION The results of the analysis show that the “social deviation” that is revealed in the selected article for this research is related to the report on issues occurring in the Crimean Peninsula, the sections where annexation of Crimea by Russia is discussed

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Discussions on international relations between Russia, Indonesia, and Crimea cannot be detached from a pivotal moment taking place in 2014, which was the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Emma Heywood’s research titled “Comparing Russian, French, and UK Television News: Portrayals of the Casualties of War”, for instance, shows that narratives from Eastern European and Russian news have different framings. This happens because in every reportage, Volume 11 Number 3, 2021 p-ISSN. News from countries that are in close bilateral ties with Russia uses a more neutral lexical choice of words, such as “referendum” This is evidence that the media constructs different meanings to be interpreted, and such an idea becomes the basis of this writing’s research problems

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