Presentation of Social Actor on the Claim of 2019 Presidential Election Winner in Indonesia

Abstract

In the 2019 Indonesian Legislative General Election and Presidential Election, two parties in competition, Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin and Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno, have claimed their victory. The victory of Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin was based on the results that had been issued by several independent polling agencies, while the victory of Prabowo SubiantoSandiaga Uno was claimed by the department of internal survey agency within their campaign team as the National Board of Victory (BPN, Badan Pemenangan Nasional). This situation caught the public attention quite massively at that time. One of the national newspapers, Kompas, even made a special report on the claim of victories between the two pairs of presidential and vice-presidential candidate. In relation to the statement, the study aims at analysing and describing the strategy of presenting the social actors through the process of exclusion and inclusion within the claims of victory. In conducting the study, the researchers rely on the use of constructivism paradigm with primary data sources in the form of five news items and secondary data sources in the form of books, online news items, and relevant journal articles and reports. In gathering these data, the researchers have implemented the documentation study and also the literature study. In the meantime, for analysing the data, the researchers have implemented the Leeuwen’s discourse analysis model that consists of exclusion and inclusion. Thus, the results of the study show that: 1) there are passivation, nominalization, and substitution of clauses within the news items; and (2) the inclusion process is carried out through the strategy of determination, abstraction, assimilation, association, and differentiation.