Prabowo Subianto Research Articles

Propaganda and Political Memes on Social Media in the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Election

Political memes colored the 2019 Indonesian presidential election campaign on social media. Political memes have become one of the propaganda strategies to influence public opinion to gain political support from the public before the presidential election. This study aims to analyze and understand political memes as a medium of political propaganda in the 2019 Indonesian presidential election. This study uses critical discourse analysis to uncover the meaning behind the text. The data collection technique uses documentation in the form of political memes of the two presidential candidates, both in images and political symbols scattered on social media in the January – March 2019 period. Furthermore, the data will be analyzed using Fairclough's critical discourse analysis model to find out the meaning of the text. This study indicates that social media plays an essential role in political communication in the 2019 presidential election campaign. Social media is a cheap and fast means of spreading political memes that reach potential voters widely and massively. Through political memes, Joko Widodo often talks about having links with the Indonesian Communist Party. Meanwhile, Prabowo Subianto is often spoken of by his political opponents as a supporter of the caliphate in Indonesia. These political memes are used as political propaganda to construct or deconstruct political presidential candidates' discourse and build or damage the reputation of presidential candidates to influence public opinion.

Quasi-civilian defence minister and civilian authority: The case study of Indonesia's Ministry of Defence during Joko Widodo’s presidency

The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, appointed two former military generals, Ryamizard Ryacudu (2014–2019) and Prabowo Subianto (2019–present), for the first- and second-term defence minister positions consecutively. The appointment of military officers – either retired or active – as defence ministers has been perceived as a recipe for potential democratic setbacks. Current studies on the quasi-civilian defence minister mainly focused on explaining the logic behind such appointments. On the other hand, our study attempts to test the argument about whether the decision to select former military figures to lead the Ministry of Defence undermines civilian control. This article examines: (1) the institutional arrangement of the defence establishment; (2) the composition of the Indonesian Ministry of Defence's leadership structure; and (3) the leadership activities and key initiatives. The findings are that military officers have indeed dominated the ministry's organisational structure. Nevertheless, such domination did not automatically translate into the deterioration of civilian supremacy as the institutional arrangement limits those quasi-civilian defence ministers’ manoeuvres.

Dakwah Digital dalam Meme Ajakan Shalat Jum’at: Perspektif Semiotika

This study analyzes the meaning of digital da'wah in the Friday prayer invitation meme. This research was completed with a qualitative research approach with semiotic analysis which is part of the textual analysis of mass media. The findings of the research are digital da'wah signs in memes asking for Friday prayers such as caps, white koko clothes, mics, headscarves, Al-Qur'an etc. The digital da'wah signifiers in the meme are Rhoma Irama, Joko Widodo, Prabowo Subianto, beautiful women, etc. The signified digital da'wah memes are piety, faith, politicization of religion, and political campaigns. The denotation meaning of digital da'wah in the meme is that a good leader even though he is busy does not leave the Friday prayer obligation. Friday prayer should be understood by Muslim men compared to Friday night worship (i.e husband and wife relationship). Its connotative meaning is that the Friday prayer is understood as an attempt to gain political masses. Friday prayers are considered as a way to be handsome in this world only and not handsome in the hereafter. The conclusion is that digital da'wah in the invitation to Friday prayer can be interpreted in three contexts, namely Islam, culture and politics.

Sentiment Analysis of YouTube Comments: Potential Indonesian Presidential Election Candidates

This study examines the public's sentiments toward potential candidates for the 2024 Indonesia presidential election. This study utilized YouTube comments on the Kompas TV channel, which features videos from potential presidential candidates, as its data source. Coberry is used to download YouTube comments, which are then analyzed using Python using the Pandas Library, matplotlib, wordcloud, and textblob. This study aims to determine the public's response to presidential candidates in the general election of 2024. This study shows that the public has positive sentiments toward the three presidential candidates named Ganjar Pranowo, Anies Baswedan, and Prabowo Subianto.

Representation of Presidential Candidates of Election 2019 in Online Media in Lampung

Towards the presidential election of Republic of Indonesia in 2019, many discourses related to the presidential election 2019 appeared in various mass media. The media included printed, electronic, and online news which gave information, editorial, advertisement, and other forms related to the presidential election. These various contents about the presidential election were interesting to be explored through research because they could uncover realities which were represented differently, for different purposes, and with distinctive ideology in each mass medium. These phenomena could be found not only in national online mass media, but also in online mass media in Lampung. Observing how the prospective president and vice president were represented in local online mass media was an interesting thing. That was because by using data from local online mass media, we could identify how constellation movement and political dynamics in national level were represented in local level with unique reader segments. One of provinces which were interesting to be explored through research was Lampung. As a province located in the southern area of Sumatera, Lampung was geographically strategic as the connector of Java and Sumatera. Lampung played a crucial role due to its position as the gate of Sumatera Island in logistic matters and citizen mobilization to Java and Sumatera. Based on data from Alexa (Alexa, 2019) there were five online mass media in Lampung which occupied the highest positions: saibumi.com, jejamo.com, lampost.co, radarlampung.co.id, and duajurai.co. This research aimed at describing the representation of prospective president and vice president during the presidential election 2019 in news articles published by local news sites in Lampung. It would use a discourse analysis with Corpus- Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis (CACDA). Based on data analysis, it was found that Dua Jurai, Jejamo, Saibumi, and Radar Lampung had a tendency to represent both prospective presidents and vice presidents neutrally. Meanwhile, Lampung Post had a tendency to represent the first prospective president and vice president: Jokowi-Maruf Amin in positive ways and the second prospective president and vice president: Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno in negative ways. This appeared from word-use frequency in news about both prospective presidents and vice presidents published by the mass media.

PENGATURAN LARANGAN RANGKAP JABATAN MENTRI DALAM PERATURAN PERUNDANG-UNDANGAN DI INONESIA

Article 23 of the Law on State Ministries, ministers are prohibited from holding concurrent positions. However, at the Ministry of Defense, which is held by Prabowo Subianto, there was a dual position carried out by Prabowo Subianto where he served as Minister of Defense and general chairman of a political party. Judging from Article 23 of the Law on the Ministry of State, there is ambiguity in letter C, because Prabowo Subianto, apart from being the Minister of Defense, is also the general chairman of a political party. Article 35 paragraph (1) letter c of Law No. 2 of 2011 concerning Political Parties also regulates the existence of financial sources for political parties, namely in the form of financial assistance from the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBN)/Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD). Assistance sourced in this case (APBN/APBD) is assistance from the central government and local governments which of course already have arrangements that are in accordance with the needs of the party. Of course, each party does not get the same assistance because the provision of assistance from the central and regional governments sourced from the APBN/APBD is based on or based on the votes obtained by each party in the current Minister of Defense election where he is still the general chairman of a political party when viewed One of the sources of income for political parties in Indonesia is the APBN or APBD. Therefore, concurrent positions carried out by a minister who is also the general chairman of a political party have violated Article 23 letter C of the State Ministerial Law which can interfere with the performance of a minister in carrying out his duties so that the resulting performance cannot be optimal because it is divided by his activities as a general chairman of a political party.

Prediction of Indonesian presidential candidates in 2024 using sentiment analysis and text search on Twitter

This study aims to show whether Twitter analysis can predict and forecast candidates in the Indonesian presidential election in 2024. This study was conducted long before the election began. To reduce the gap and utopian attitude in analyzing, two forms of analysis were used at once, namely sentiment analysis and text searches on Twitter data. This study uses a quantitative approach with descriptive content analysis. The data was obtained from Twitter social media, with Twitter Search focusing on official accounts and topics surrounding the 2024 presidential election. The search and data collection first adjusted to the trend of poll results spread in online news. The trend resulting from the poll is used to adjust the names of candidates to be searched for on Twitter search. The analysis tool used also utilizes the Nvivo 12 Plus analysis software. This study succeeded in mapping out three potential candidates in the 2024 election, namely Anies Baswedan, Ganjar Pranowo, and Prabowo Subianto. The mapping of potential candidates also has correspondence with the results of opinion polls in newspapers. From these findings, the information and data on Twitter help make predictions and an alternative to using the poll method. The drawback of this study lies in the limited use of time, so it is recommended that further research be carried out to collect and analyze similar data regularly until the election period. This may indicate that Twitter can predict earlier or better than polls.

How They Claim The Victory: A Rhetorical Analysis On Indonesian Presidential Candidates’ Victory Speeches Within Pragma-Stylistic Framework


 
 
 
 ABSTRACT
 This study is a rhetorical analysis of the victory speech of Indonesian presidential candidates in a national election held on April 17th, 2019. This study aims to know the features of the pragma-stylistic mainly on speech act analysis as presented in the speeches related to winning claims by the candidates of the presidential election after the general election. This study attempts to identify and analyze the manifested speech within the pragma-stylistics framework, which is the speech act. This study assessed both presidential candidates’ victory speeches after the general election in Indonesia year 2019. The victory speeches were the speeches of Mr Joko “Jokowi” Widodo from Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Pembangunan (Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle) and Mr Prabowo Subianto from Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya (Great Indonesia Movement). The speech acts theory was employed to analyze the presented data in this study. The data were obtained from the great news platforms in Indonesia. The result showed that assertive appeared as the most frequent type used in the speeches. The result was reasonable due to the goal of the speech, which was to address the data obtained by both candidates and assure people that they deserved the place as the next Indonesian president.
 
 Keywords: Rhetorical analysis, Pragma-Stylistic Framework, Indonesian Presidential Candidates’ Victory Speeches
 
 
 

Kampanye Politik Kampanye Politik Pilkada Pasangan Calon Wali Kota Tangerang Selatan Siti Nur Azizah-Ruhamaben

The purpose of this research was specifically to determine the political campaign of the candidate pair for Mayor Election of South Tangerang (Tangsel), Siti Nur Azizah-Ruhamaben during the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2020 Mayor Election was like a war between dynasties, because of the candidates have a political power based on their families. The candidate of H. Muhamad and Rahayu Saraswati Djojohadikusumo have a connection with the Minister of Defense, Prabowo Subianto which was her uncle . While the other candidates, Siti Nur Azizah was the daughter of Vice President Ma'ruf Amin. Meanwhile the another one, Pilar Saga Ichsan, was the son of the Regent of Serang, Ratu Tatu which was the younger sister of the former Banten Governor, Ratu Atut Chosiyah. The author used a qualitative research method with a descriptive approach. The results of this research were the political campaign of Siti Nur Azizah-Ruhamaben in the 2020 Mayor Election still focuses on offline campaigns. Procurement of props or outdoor media and greeting residents directly (including blusukan). Azizah-Ruhamaben also intensifies campaigns virtually or digitally, such as through social media or other digital applications such as WhatsAap groups and also creates and intensively campaigns on webs and Blogspot, and conducts character friendships through zoom meetings. In addition, Azizah–Ruhamaben integrated the two campaigns, one of which was by carrying out a drive-in declaration. The drive-in declaration has become a new innovation related to campaigns during the pandemic. Keywords: Campaign, Pilkada, Politic

Implementation Indonesian Language Learning through Critical Discourse Analysis of Verbal Abuse in the 2019 Presidential Election

This study aims to describe the sources of critical discourse analysis of verbal abuse through social media during the 2019 presidential election of the Republic of Indonesia into Indonesian language learning. This is intended so that students have space to improve critical thinking skills. A qualitative approach with phenomenological methods is used in describing the results of the study. This research has two stages, namely: first, analyzing critical discourse on social media during the 2019 presidential election, and researchers implementing it in Indonesian language learning in universities. Collecting data using observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The results of the study describe that 2019 was a big event for Indonesia. As for the Indonesian presidential candidates in 2019, there are two people, namely; Ir. Joko Widodo (sequence 1) and Prabowo Subianto (sequence number 2). Social media is busy spreading news without any filtering of the information. Based on the reduction of documentation data, it was found that verbal abuse that occurred during the 2019 presidential election of the Republic of Indonesia, namely; a) insulting; b) condescending; c) accusing; and d) expel/dismiss. The practice of learning critical discourse analysis in verbal abuse in the 2019 Indonesian republican elections was held on 7 and 14 October 2021. The topic of learning was reading and writing literacy. Learning is presented by applying the cooperative learning model to see how students are able to express opinions

The Multimodal Portrayal of The 2019 Indonesian Presidential Candidates' Rivalry on English Tempo's Cover Stories

This research has investigated how English Tempo magazine's cover stories portrayed the Indonesian presidential candidate's rivalry between Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Prabowo Subianto (Prabowo) to audiences. Four English Tempo's cover stories were then selected as the data and analyzed by the Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) approach. Furthermore, this research uses a qualitative method with descriptive perspective for data analysis. Moreover, the results have shown that (i) the presidential and vice-presidential candidates' photographs and caricatures, (ii) the illustrations of presidential candidates' actions related to specific political events at the time, and (iii) the main titles could multimodally portray the presidential candidates' rivalry to the audiences. The photographs and caricatures in the cover stories' pictorial components visually manifested the candidates' rivalry. Moreover, the cover stories' main titles explained the photographs and caricatures. Furthermore, those semiotic components combined in each cover story could modulate some multimodal communicative acts to portray the rivalry between presidential candidates. Meanwhile, the benefit of this research result is to provide the readers with the formulation of how English Tempo Magazine presents the topic of rivalry between Indonesian presidential candidates by visualizing issues concerning presidential candidates in the cover stories.

Islamic political supports and voting behaviors in majority and minority Muslim Provinces in Indonesia

This article focuses on relation between Islam and politics in Indonesia during the last two presidential election. The article looks at Islamic political support to Prabowo Subianto and its influence into the 2014 and 2019 Presidential election in the majority and minority Muslim provinces. Data collection was conducted by document study to texts of internet media, especially on the issues of Islamic political support to Prabowo Subianto and results of the 2014 and 2019 Presidential election in the chosen majority and minority Muslim provinces. This study reveals correlation between Islam and politics with results of the two previous Indonesian Presidential election, finding out that the Islamic political support has increased votes of the promoted candidates in majority Muslim provinces and reversely decreased votes of the candidate in minority Muslim provinces. The study shows that the Islamic political supports affect voting behaviors more in minority Muslim provinces than in majority Muslim provinces. These findings, in turn, highlight the importance of developing a strategy to manage religious political support in Indonesian elections.

ROLE OF DEFENSE DIPLOMACY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDONESIAN DEFENSE INDUSTRY

Indonesia's defense policy in the form of a Minimum Essential Force (MEF) can produce a policy on the development of Indonesia's defense posture until 2024. To date, efforts to meet the needs of Defense and Security Equipment Tools (Alpalhankam) are still trying to fulfill MEF needs until now one hundred percent. The fulfillment of the need for Defense and Security continues through procurement from foreign and local defense industries. The establishment of the KKIP in 2010 and the issuance of Law Number 12 of 2012 have legitimized the government's support in efforts to develop the national defense industry. With the government's policy related to the defense industry, it will encourage the ability of the local defense industry to realize independence which carries out by defense diplomacy. The problem to be investigated is the government's role of defense diplomacy to support the development of the Indonesian defense industry. The research was carried out with a qualitative descriptive method with data collection techniques through snowball sampling and literature study. The study results show that defense diplomacy carried out by the current government, especially the Minister of Defense Prabowo Subianto, can encourage defense cooperation that can support the development of the Indonesian defense industry while still prioritizing the principle of being accessible active, and non-alliance. Furthermore, the defense diplomacy strategy needs to be developed more broadly by offering a broader and more profitable defense industry cooperation schemeKeywords: defense diplomacy, transfer of knowledge, defense industry

DRIVE-IN DECLARATION AS A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN TOOL FOR THE CANDIDATE PAIR FOR MAYOR SITI NUR AZIZAH-RUHAMABEN

The purpose of this research was specifically to determine the political campaign of the candidate pair for Mayor Election of South Tangerang (Tangsel), Siti Nur Azizah-Ruhamaben during the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2020 Mayor Election was like a war between dynasties because the candidates have political power based on their families. The candidate of H. Muhamad and Rahayu Saraswati Djojohadikusumo have a connection with the Minister of Defense, Prabowo Subianto which was her uncle . While the other candidate, Siti Nur Azizah was the daughter of Vice President Ma'ruf Amin. Meanwhile, another one, Pilar Saga Ichsan, was the son of the Regent of Serang, Ratu Tatu which was the younger sister of the former Banten Governor, Ratu Atut Chosiyah. The author used a qualitative research method with a descriptive approach. The results of this research were the political campaign of Siti Nur Azizah-Ruhamaben in the 2020 Mayor Election still focuses on offline campaigns. Procurement of props or outdoor media and greeting residents directly (including blusukan). Azizah-Ruhamaben also intensifies campaigns virtually or digitally, such as through social media or other digital applications such as WhatsApp groups, and also creates and intensively campaigns on webs and Blogspot, and conducts character friendships through zoom meetings. In addition, Azizah–Ruhamaben integrated the two campaigns, one of which was by carrying out a drive-in declaration. The drive-in declaration has become an innovation related to campaigns during the pandemic.

Political Marketing Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno in the 2019 Presidential Election

This research explains how the political marketing of Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno was conducted in the 2019 presidential election. This study uses a qualitative approach, and data collection methods use in-depth interviews and documentation. The results showed that Prabowo-Sandiaga tried to maximize all stages of their political marketing concept, nevertheless the political marketing concept carried out by Prabowo-Sandiaga had not yet had a good impact on the final results in the 2019 presidential election. On the other hand, all the stages of the political marketing concept carried out by Prabowo-Sandiaga in the 2019 presidential election slightly increased the total votes if compared to the total votes obtained in the previous presidential election. The stages of political marketing carried out by Prabowo-Sandiaga in the 2019 presidential election started with Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning, and Political Marketing Campaign Strategy. Prabowo-Sandiaga has several political segmentations which are then given a focus on political targets with patterns full market coverage. Prabowo-Sandiaga has a positioning on issues such as: Welfare, Justice, Prosperity. The positioning strategy pattern used is the rationalization strategy. Political marketing campaign strategy carried out with push political marketing, pull political marketing, and pass political marketing.

SamuelsAnnemarie. After the tsunami: disaster narratives and the remaking of everyday life in Aceh. xiv, 199 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. £68.00 (cloth)StrasslerKaren. Demanding images: democracy, mediation, and the image‐event in Indonesia. 368 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020, £24.99 (paper)

SamuelsAnnemarie. After the tsunami: disaster narratives and the remaking of everyday life in Aceh. xiv, 199 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. £68.00 (cloth)StrasslerKaren. Demanding images: democracy, mediation, and the image‐event in Indonesia. 368 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020, £24.99 (paper)

Power Consolidation of Jokowi's Administration: The Role of the Social Media and Political Issues in Indonesian Democracy

Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is the first Indonesian Democratic President elected by the peripheral people and not the elite. Jokowi is the only Indonesian President that is not the leader of any political party. Therefore, the President was faced with the issues of power consolidation in the initial administrative years. Some professional elites failed the President because they assumed a possible overthrown. During the presidential election in 2019 with Prabowo Subianto, Jokowi took K. H. Ma'ruf Amien as a vice presidential candidate and was attacked by China and the Indonesian Communist Party (ICP/PKI). However, Jokowi was re-elected for the second period (2019-2024) due to his close relationship with Indonesians, which is different from other presidents.
 
 Received: 23 August 2021 / Accepted: 24 November 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022

Leadership Style of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto

Leadership Style of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto

Penegakan Hukum Mahar Politik dalam Pilpres 2019 Ditinjau dari Politik Hukum Pidana

The issue of political dowry, relatively, becomes a sustainable warning of problems in every general election in Indonesia. Such as the issue of Sandiaga Uno, who provided political dowry in the 2019 presidential election. The allegation was started by the Deputy of General-secretary of the Party of Democrat, Andi Arief, who stated that Sandiaga Uno had provided 500 billion rupiahs to PAN and PKS respectively so that those two parties would support him to nominate as the Candidate of Vice President for Prabowo Subianto. Political dowry has been a serious issue and almost constantly becomes an interesting topic to be reported and studied in every general election. Although it is popular, the issue of political dowry is a case that is relatively difficult to prove its truth (court decisions). In fact, explicitly, political dowry has been regulated in Article 228 on Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning the General Election (Election Law). However, it does not expressly provide a deterrent effect to the political dowry actors. This reality becomes the basis of encouragement in conducting this research. The theory used in this research is legal politics and law enforcement. While the method used is normative legal research with a statutory, conceptual, and comparative approach. The output of this paper is that the handling of political dowry cases in the presidential election needs a serious concern. And then, the regulation on sanctions, which still be administrative in nature, against the actors of political dowry in the Election Law is considered to be inappropriate. So that criminal policy is needed to strengthen the law enforcement and strict legal instruments against criminal acts of political dowry in the future election (ius constituendum).

Local and National Elections in Remote Indonesia: The Case of Sumba

Democratization has brought some significant changes to Indonesia, but in peripheral regions such as the island of Sumba, there remains much continuity. Although the party system has opened up after the fall of Suharto’s New Order in 1999, the ways in which royal status and patronage act to influence elections in Sumba remain, especially at the local and provincial levels. The national political conversation, however, does influence politics in Sumba. In the 2019 presidential election, the perceived threat of political Islam from candidate Prabowo Subianto pushed the predominantly Protestant population of Sumba and its province East Nusa Tenggara to choose his opponent, Joko Widodo, for a second term, similar to other predominantly non-Muslim provinces.