ANALYZING ONLINE MEDIA DISPOSITION ON THE DELIBERATION OF THE ALCOHOL PROHIBITION BILL IN INDONESIA

Abstract

This research is intended to reveal the discourse practice and texts disposition of three different online news media articles toward the deliberation of alcohol prohibition bill in Indonesia. The method employed in the present research is qualitative with critical perspective. The discourse in the form of news analyzed in this study are three selected news about alcohol prohibition bill published by ANTARA News, Hidayatullah.com, and The Bali Sun News in which the Fairclough’s three-dimensional CDA approach were applied. Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough is described as having dimensions/structures: text description, text interpretation, and text explanation. In the text description, the analysis focused on how the structure of transitivity and modality theories were realized. At the text interpretation, the analysis focused on how the texts intertextuality were conducted. This first two stages constructed the discourse practice of the texts. Later, in the text explanation stage, the discourse practice shown in the texts were further analyzed in its relation with sociocultural practice to determine the dispositions. The results of this research reveal that (1) ANTARA News represents the government agreed with the implementation of alcohol laws that lead to regulation and control to support the economic policy. (2) Hidayatullah.com represents Islamic community, agreed and has much more weight in the implementation of strict alcohol regulation bill since it was against Islamic beliefs, and has detrimental impacts to people wellbeing. (3) The Bali Sun News article represents Bali tourism community, disagreed with the implementation of alcohol ban bill and threw many dubious opinions. They believe that in tourism community like Bali, this kind of policies would never be approved.