Rethinking full day schools in Indonesia: the discursive practices of Indonesian newspapers  

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Nirmala, Ira ; Arifin, Dimas ; Abdullah, Fuad

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 16: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keenam Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 227-230.
Topik: Full Day School; representation; discursive practices; Indonesian newspapers
Fulltext: 227-230 Ira Nirmala, Dimas Arifin, Fuad Abdullah.pdf (199.72KB)

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Full Day School (hereafter FDS) has been a debatable issue after the Indonesian Education and Culture minister raised such a policy to the public. It was assumed to generate controversies among people, such as anxiety in the community, inadequate fund, human resources, facilities and infrastructure and disrupting the existence of madrassa diniyyaa (primary Islamic schools). This study examined six newspaper articles reporting FDS policy in Indonesia retrieved from the Jakarta Post and Republika as the corpora. These newspapers were selected because of their large-scale circulation, intensity of reporting FDS issues and English language journalistic form. Further, this study applied linguistic concepts and tools proposed by Richardson (Richardson, 2007). To illustrate, such analytical tools encompass predication, transitivity, modality, presupposition, rhetorical tropes and narrative as the primary foci of analysis. Technically, they were utilized as the knives to unveil the discursive practices embodied in such newspaper articles. Two layers of finding were identified, namely 1) the representation of FDS and people’s reactions documented in both newspaper articles and 2) the pattern of discursive practices constructed by the text producers. The findings signified that those newspaper articles represented FDS as a disadvantageous policy, social injustice and unsympathetic governmental regulation in relation to its implementation in Indonesian educational system. In this case, it was presumed to trigger a huge number of protests, particularly from one of the largest Indonesian Islamic organizations and the teachers of madrassa diniyyaa. Discursively speaking, the audiences (readers) were positioned as the consumers and commodity of the marketized news due to the news producers performed their roles as the thought-provoking actors leading the audiences to possess a similar perception and judgment towards FDS as the elicited issue. In addition, both the Jakarta Post and Republika implied their ideology within their reports. This reinforced Richardson’s postulate claiming that no media which neutrally provide information to the public (Richardson, 2007). With this in mind, people should be able to critically filter and analytically select the information broadcasted by the mass media to obtain the valuable information without being trapped on the mass media ideological construction.

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