A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO’S SPEECH ON ANTASARI AZHAR’S ACCUSATION AS MASTERMINDING THE MURDER OF NASRUDIN ZULKARNAEN

Abstract

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) as former President of Indonesia conveys speech in order to clarify the statement of Former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman, Antasari Azhar, that accuses him become masterminding of Nasrudin Zulkarnaen’s murder. Moreover, Antasari’s statements also influence the vote and public assumption about his son, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY), who becomes candidate in Jakarta Governor Election 2017. The purpose of this research are 1) to describe the speech text used by SBY in order to clarify Antasari’s statement, 2) to find out interpersonal meaning in the text in representing his ideology. This paper, based on Critical Discourse Analysis theory (CDA) and Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) analyzes SBY’s speech mainly from the point of transitivity and modality, in which we can learn how language serves the ideology and power. The source of data is text of SBY’s speech in giving clarification of Antasari Azhar’s statement published by Tribunnews.com in February 14, 2017. Content analysis is employed by investigating every clause in the text. The results of this analysis show that 1) he uses more simple words and short sentences instead of difficult ones, 2) from transitivity analyzes, SBY tries to convince citizen and make positive selfrepresentation. Ideology reflected from SBY’s speech are 1) SBY’s strategy to maintain his power, 2) SBY tries to save the vote and public assumption of AHY in Jakarta Governor Election 2017.