THE ANALYSIS OF SUMBER WARAS CASE IN SINDONEWS’ EDITORIAL“Sumber Waras bukan Pertarungan Opini” DATED APRIL 15 TH , 2016

Abstract

Media has an important role in telling an information. There is a case which dragged the governor of Jakarta; Mr. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or oftenly called as Ahok. The case is about the allegations of irregularities in the procurement of land in West Jakarta. The governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or Ahok was reported by the City Council to the KPK in August 2015 in connection with a land procurement process that, according to the Supreme Court Agency (BPK), caused potential state losses. In the audit of the city administration's 2014 financial report, the BPK found a suspicious case of land procurement worth Rp 755.69 billion (US$ 55.9 million). Using Critical Discourse Analysis theory proposed by Fairclough (1989, 1995, 1997), the researcher wants to find the linguistic expressions used in the editorial. The data is the editorial from Sindonews media dated April 15 th , 2016 entitled Sumber Waras bukan Pertarungan Opini. The researcher found that there are 7 (seven) strategies used in the editorial to tell about the case.