Open AccessIndonesian Women in Politics: Critical Analysis of Portrayal in Online News Sites
Author(s) -
Daniel Susilo,
Rahma Sugihartati,
Diah Ariani Arimbi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jurnal ilmu komunikasi/jurnal ilmu komunikasi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2548-8643
pISSN - 1829-6564
DOI - 10.24002/jik.v16i2.1477
Subject(s) - indonesian , indonesian government , representativeness heuristic , parliament , legislature , critical discourse analysis , politics , political science , government (linguistics) , media studies , gender studies , sociology , law , psychology , social psychology , linguistics , ideology , philosophy
In 2004 Election, Indonesian government launched a policy mandatory 30 percent female representatives in the legislature. This is an effort to accelerate an increase of women’s representativeness in the parliament. This research describes the imaging of women as politicians in Indonesian online news sites: detikcom, Kompas.com, and Tribunnews.com. Van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis was utilized as method of this research with feminist critical analysis as the corresponding method. The result shows that the imaging of female politicians is in the domestic area. They are pictured as emotional and weak persons.