Abstract
This study aims to determine the role of community newspaper in carrying out its oversight function of corruption in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. The type of research used is the content analysis and in-depth interviews with several key informants, including the mayor, the attorney general, the police, non-governmental organizations, and newspaper publishers. The unit of analysis is four local newspapers namely Pare Pos, Palopo Pos, Radar Bone and Radar Selatan. These four newspapers were published outside the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Makassar. Data analysis used the Single Factor Analysis of variance (ANOVA) or one-factor ANOVA (One Way ANOVA) test. The findings of the study show that: (1) the media has a role in carrying out its oversight function of corruption in government institutions in South Sulawesi, although this is not solely because of the media, but also the regulation and supervision carried out by the government through the bureaucratic path, (2) The portion of community newspaper coverage of corruption is quite large compared to other themes. However, judging from the tone of the news in general, it is still nuanced with information, and there has not been much investigated reporting. (3) Judging from the frequency of the coverage of these four newspapers, the Palopo Pos Daily and Radar Bone Daily showed a trend in reporting corruption issues, while the Pare Pos and Radar Selatan Daily tended to focus more on public service issues, for example waste, road, drinking water, electricity and traffic problems. However, statistical analysis showed that the difference was not significant.
Highlights
Nosakros Arya Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, ABSTRACT This study aims to determine the role of community newspaper in carrying out its oversight function of corruption in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia
Research purposes This study aims to find out: (1) The role of community media published in South Sulawesi in carrying out its oversight function of corruption in this area
Radar Bone has 7 views in terms of law, 1 education and 3 others, while Radar Selatan Daily has a display in the legal midwife (0), while the development theme has 6 items, 5 environment items, and 3 other items
Summary
The practice of expanding districts and cities in Indonesia over the past 15 years is expected to accelerate regional development by managing the potential of natural resources and human resources to be able to finance their regions With such expectations, the local government is given the opportunity to create and innovate more. It can be said that since the regional autonomy law was implemented, not a few political officials (governors, mayors, leaders and members of parliament) and bureaucratic officials in various regions in Indonesia were involved in corruption cases. Whether he is still a suspect, defendant or convicted is often used as a news item for journalists. The magnitude of the danger of corruption on the mental attitude of government officials in Indonesia and the continuity of national development, the press in this case the journalists have a control function on the running of the government and to service to the public (Law Number 40 of 1999)
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