Agenda Setting of the Religious Issues News in National Print Media (Content Analysis of News of the Islamic Defense Action III December 2, 2016)
- DOI
- 10.2991/acec-18.2018.42How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- agenda setting; content analysis of news; religious blasphemy; religious issues
- Abstract
The statement of the former Governor of Jakarta Capital City, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) about QS Al-Maidah verse 51 in his speech on Pramuka Island on September 27, 2016 caused controversy and became a national issue in Indonesia since his recording video spread in social media during October 2016. The issue then developed into an issue of religious blasphemy that caused unrest among a group of Indonesian muslims and the Aksi Bela Islam III 212 (Islamic Defense Action III 212), an action with the largest number of mass and crowded reported in various Indonesian mass media. This action was interesting because involved muslims from various regions of Indonesia to demand a fair and transparent legal process against Ahok, the first non-Muslim governor of Jakarta Capital City. Using the content analysis method with descriptive approach, this research analyzes how the agenda setting of Indonesian national newspaper to salience the issues about Islamic Defense Action III 212. Results of the study showed that, the issue salience in text news and photo news were dominated by positive-tone news, on the contrary infographics were dominated by negative-tone news.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Metha Silvia Ningrum AU - Arintowati H. Handoyo PY - 2018/11 DA - 2018/11 TI - Agenda Setting of the Religious Issues News in National Print Media (Content Analysis of News of the Islamic Defense Action III December 2, 2016) BT - Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 172 EP - 177 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/acec-18.2018.42 DO - 10.2991/acec-18.2018.42 ID - Ningrum2018/11 ER -