A Discourse Analysis Towards News Report of Jakarta Regional Election of 2017 About the Issues of Political Promises in the Campaign on Media Indonesia.com and okezone.com

Abstract

The independence of media is expected to provide balanced, neutral information
because it may greatly determine the quality of the ongoing regional election. As the
opposite, there is also a possibility in which media is used as a tool to build political
power. That is why there is a new phenomenon in which many media owners are involved
and even actively participated in politics in Indonesia. Therefore, they emphasize more on
using online media to develop their media business. One of the advantages of using online
media is that it can provide the new propaganda faster. In addition, as the media is
having its power to build the public opinion, they got the power to directly lead the
stakeholders to certain political interests. In this study, news report on Media
Indonesia.com published and okezone.com was used as the object of study in order to
identify the case of regional election in Jakarta about the Issues of Political Promises.