THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF INDIGENOUS BELIEF ISSUE IN THE JAKARTA POST

Suprayogi Suprayogi,Dian Puspita,Kamelia Sari,Sandi Nuansa

doi:10.30743/ll.v5i2.4538

Abstract

As indigenous belief acknowledgement in Indonesia is still progressive, debatable but limitedly investigated from critical discourse analysis perspective, this research is aimed at revealing the discursive construction of indigenous belief issue in The Jakarta Post. This research focuses on analyzing indigenous belief as phenomenon, indigenous believers and government as social actor through the analysis of nomination and predication strategies. Articles published in The Jakarta Post online newspaper from 2013 - 2020 are chosen as corpus data. To analyze this research, Discourse-Historical Approach by Wodak and Meyer (2009) is used as the framework. This research also employs corpus analysis using Sketch Engine. The finding suggests that the issue centralized in the discussion of identity card and human right framed in five different periods. The use of collective proper name, anthroponym and deixis are significant to refer to indigenous believers, meanwhile institutional name, anthroponym and synecdoche are mostly used as referent for government. There is a shift of predication strategies from negative to positive when it discussed government policy on putting indigenous belief column on identity card. This research suggests that the use of corpus software as well as manual corpus screening is important to locate more detail language data.

Highlights

Creating inclusive society becomes important agenda of many countries including Indonesia
This research examines the discursive construction of indigenous belief issue by analyzing the nomination and predication strategies employed by The Jakarta Post to indigenous belief object, indigenous believer and government
Nomination strategies of indigenous belief are seen from the use of various referent such as proper name of indigenous belief organization and alternative term of belief such as faith and religion

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Creating inclusive society becomes important agenda of many countries including Indonesia. It is a type of society where people embrace tolerance, accept any kinds of diversity, and hear other people’s voice (Kapur and Ghose, 2020). The idea of inclusive society is not merely about acceptance of disability, age, sex, origin, and about religious practices that people uphold. One of the dynamic religious issues that is widely concerned in Indonesia is the existence of indigenous belief. Indigenous belief refers to the practice of believing in nature and spiritual power, people create meaning-making on it. Indigenous belief term is coined and collocated as opposed to major religions society upholds

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