Abstract
The current research aims at investigating the most important speech of Soekarno and the ideologies behind the speech. Since Soekarno was the proclaimer of Indonesian independence as well as the first president of Indonesia, we would claim that his speeches were important to be investigated. Among the speeches, we tried to reveal the most important one through a lingual investigation. This investigation was based on grounded theory and hermeneutic theory. It was focused on the text as a part of the language. The results have shown that the most important speech of Soekarno is the speech entitled, ‘Tahun Berdikari’. It is viewed as a high novelty finding because there is no researcher who has ever claimed ‘Tahun Berdikari’ as the most important speech in the history of Indonesia. The speech contained three main ideologies, namely (1) unity as the most important thing for Indonesians, (2) revolution must be in the Indonesian soul, and (3) imperialism and capitalism as Indonesia’s main enemy.
Highlights
Political speech is a genre of political discourse and is part of public discourse
Indonesian Republic National Archives (IRNA) was located in Ampera Raya Street No 7 South Jakarta, while the National Library of Indonesia Republic was located in the 27 Salemba street, Central Jakarta
The Marhaenism and Nasakom were only ‘branch’ of three main ideologies, that is, ‘unity as the most important thing for Indonesians’, ‘revolution must be in the Indonesian soul’, and ‘Imperialism and Capitalism as Indonesia’s main enemy’
Summary
Political speech is a genre of political discourse and is part of public discourse. It is characterized by formal lexis and monolog form and it is usually carefully crafted by professional speechwriters, which leaves no room for improvisations on the part of the speaker (Matić, 2012). Skillful speakers of the political language are able to influence the preconceptions, views, ambitions, and fears of the public (Norman, 1989; David, 2014). They can persuade people to accept false e-Journal of Linguistics. Preconception, views, postulates, belief, etc, are parts of ideology that contain in political language (cf McLellan, 1986; Erikson & Tedin, 2003). Counting such ideas, it is stated that any political speech is important to be investigated, especially in the area of its ideology. The finding of the most important speech, especially the one which is related to ideology that constructed social phenomena of Indonesia, will direct any future researchers of Political Discourse, or Critical Discourse Analysis, and Historians, etc., to explore the speech for humanity and scientific purposes
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