2019 Presidential Election Campaign in Islamic Newspaper

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200225.090How to use a DOI?

Keywords

presidential election campaign, Islamic journalism, discourse

Abstract

The involvement of the media in the 2019 presidential and vice-presidential campaign was very clear. The journalism orientation of a media is inseparable from its background, ideology, and owner. In the political interests of the contestants, journalism as the main product of the media is challenged to remain in the principles and the journalistic code of ethics. Republika newspaper is the only national-owned Islamic newspaper. He departed and brought the values of Islam in his vision, mission and practice of journalism. The focus of this research was Republika newspaper-when the grand campaign of the two pairs of presidential-vice presidential candidates April, 8th and 14th 2019. Using a qualitative approach with the critical language analysis research method from Roger Fowler et al, this study founds. The first, Republika newspaper carried the language, theme and terminology of Islam. Second, Republika newspaper tried to remain independent in reporting amid a conflict of interest when the largest shareholder Erick Tohir became the head of the campaign team of the Jokowi-Maruf Amin pair. Third, Republika newspaper tried to stand in a neutral and independent. This is evidenced by giving a balanced in the campaign reporting of the two contestants, Prabowo-Sandiago and Jokowi-Maruf Amin pairs.

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© 2020, 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/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dudi Iskandar
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/03
TI  - 2019 Presidential Election Campaign in Islamic Newspaper
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 425
EP  - 427
SN  - 2352-5398
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