PENGARUH TERPAAN BERITA KERUSUHAN PAPUA DAN FAKTOR DEMOGRAFI TERHADAP CITRA POLISI DALAM PENANGANAN KERUSUHAN PAPUA DENGAN DIDAHULUI PERSEPSI TENTANG DETIK.COM PADA MASYARAKAT KECAMATAN TAMBAKSARI KOTA SURABAYA

Abstract

On August 17, 2019, there was another clash between residents and Papuan students in Surabaya, which led to riots in several areas in Papua and West Papua. This incident became the news in several media including one of them is detik.com media. One of the news topics that is often written is about the handling of the Papua riots by the police. As one of the state apparatus that has government functions in the field of security maintenance, it is undeniable that the performance of the police is a concern for the majority of Indonesian people. The results of a number of surveys obtained regarding the police show that police performance has not been good in several aspects. Theories used in this research are Agenda Setting Theory, Social Category Theory and the concept of corporate image formation. The research method is quantitative explanatory with its unit of analysis readers and users of detik.com who read news of the Papua riots at least 3 times. The population in this study is the people of Tambaksari Subdistrict, Surabaya where the sample was taken by cluster sampling technique and the results of 100 respondents were obtained. Hypothesis testing is done by using the Partial correlation test. After conducting a hypothesis test, it was concluded that the perception of detik.com was proven to be ineligible as an antecedent variable. These results are shown from the results obtained, even though partially the relationship variables in the study were not significantly related, but simultaneously appear to be related. The results showed that the news of the Papua riots affected the image of the police through readers' perceptions about detik.com and demographic factors were known to influence the formation of police images through gender and type of work. The police image is influenced by the reader's perception of detik.com by 21.2%.