Abstract
Media, basically give a role in constructing second hand reality for audiences. Referring to the debates and stereotypes about ethnic and tribal issues, media became one of the contributing aspects. The emergence of stereotypes on the basis of generalization of assumption in a particular group tends to rise some mistakes, even on radically, it will lead into a conflict. Therefore, this research want to describe how the stereotypical construction of Chinese or Tionghoa ethnic in the packaging of comedy movie today, entitled Ngenest, by Ernest Prakasa. This light comedy genre film was also created and starred by Ernest Prakasa, recounted his life as an indigenous Tionghoa descendant who had to deal with social stereotypes of his Chinese. Through the analysis of critical discourse of Teun A. Van Dijk, this research give further analyzes in how the construction of reality towards Tionghoa ethnic stereotypes that raised in three basic aspects, i.e: text, cognitive, and social analysis.
Highlights
As a country with a plural and multicultural concept, Indonesia shows birth the relationships and interactions between ethnic groups within the social sphere
The selection of the characters in the film Ngenest can be said to be in accordance with the direction of the film message, especially related to the stereotypical meaning of the Tionghoa ethnicity raised through the film
The Ngenest film eventually became a form of discourse on the ethnic Tionghoa stereotypes of social thought and labeling
Summary
As a country with a plural and multicultural concept, Indonesia shows birth the relationships and interactions between ethnic groups within the social sphere. Seeing this inter-ethnic relationship, one of them are between indigenous ethnic and Chinese ethnic, Leo Suryadinata (2002) noted that the results of census of the 2000 population showed the number of Chinese people in Indonesia began to decrease. Suryadinata (2002: 287) added that reduction of population, especially Tionghoa ethnicity, was influenced by the fear when acknowledging that they were of Tionghoa ethnicity. This was caused by trauma after the riots May 1998. Van Der Kroef and Mary Somers Heidhues show that since the Dutch colonial era, the Chinese term has a degrading meaning and considered by the person concerned to be an insulting and disparaging title (Suryadinata, 2002: 100)
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