Symbolic Efforts for Maintaining Anti-Communist Discourse on Matan Magazine

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10.2991/assehr.k.200529.021How to use a DOI?

Keywords

symbolic efforts, anti-communist discourse, Matan

Abstract

The discourse of communism in Indonesia is closely related to the tragedies involving the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). The meaning of the ideology of communism has become a symbolic fight arena. PKI as victims or as perpetrators of the massacre into a debate that continues to this day. The assumption has implications on the meaning of “communism as an ideology” in Indonesia. That to this day is still a scourge of communism for most of society is a reality. Although Suharto has fallen, the effort to preserve the anti-communist discourse into a phenomenon in Indonesia. This research study focuses on how Matan Magazine in East Java Magazine seeks to maintain the anti-communist discourse. The goal is to get the power to produce and show the view of the world’s most recognized, most assumed to be true, which has legitimacy—symbolic preservation efforts on the anti-communist discourse conducted with menaissance strategy, namely euphemisms, sensorics and implicature. Besides, Matan shows some old wells to preserve the discourse. Through the method of critical discourse analysis, this study showed that up to now the Muhammadiyah Islamic organization which active in reproducing the anti-communist discourse in Indonesia. It is through images and written narrative in which the magazine wanted to instill a spirit of cruelty, crime and other things are wrong on the PKI or communism. In addition to writing story and productive sites in reproducing discourse, there are still many characters that way figures have not shifted at all on the hegemony of the regime. Way of thinking that tends to stagnate on the anti-communist discourse correlated with the idea of the purification in Muhammadiyah.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Radius Setiyawan
AU  - Sri Lestari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/04
TI  - Symbolic Efforts for Maintaining Anti-Communist Discourse on Matan Magazine
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 99
EP  - 105
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.021
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.021
ID  - Setiyawan2020
ER  -