TEMPO PRACTICE IN REPORTING AHOK CAMPAIGN OF THE JAKARTA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION 2017

Abstract

This study aims to describe the social worlds concerning Ahok’s activities during the campaign period of the Jakarta Gubernatorial election 2017 represented by Tempo and the way of Tempo in representing the social worlds influenced by a certain social-cultural context in the relationship with the ideational and economic motives through the concept of Fairclough’s CDA and Halliday's transitivity system. There are three stages in this research. The first stage is collecting data. The objects of this study are online articles of Tempo which were taken from its website during the campaign period. They were collected by using documentation and observation technique. The second stage is analyzing data through the reduction method to reduce the unnecessary element in the sentence so that the irrelevant information can be eliminated, and referential method to define the lingual unit identity of the determinant in the text. The third is presenting the study results formally and informally to get an elaborate explanation. The result shows that Tempo performs its media practice by presenting news about Ahok and his blusukan activities more dominantly than the other candidates, then manipulating the linguistic properties for representing Ahok as the victim of discrimination and generating the sources of information to support him in the news.