Riestia Handayani,2014 THE REPRESETNTATION OF THE JUDGE MUHAMMAD DAMING SUNUSI ON HIS CONTROVERISAL
STATEMENT: Critical Discourse Analysis of Indonesian Online Newspapers Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic
Muhammad Daming Sunusi Daming is a judge who serves as Head of the Banjarmasin High Court. In early 2013, he ran for Supreme Court
Justice. Then, on 14
th
January 2013, he attended fit and proper test forum in Parliament, Senayan, Jakarta. It is an interview for Supreme Court Justice
Candidates. Daming gave a controversial statement when he was asked of the
punishment for the sexual abusers whether they have to be punished to death or not. He answered that it is not needed because women also enjoy
being rapped. His statement made people there so surprised and angry. Because of his controversial statement, media blew it up for several weeks.
Daming‟s case is an instance which reflects the strategic function of media.
It is “the ability of its holders to exact compliance or obedience of oth
er individuals to their will.” Bullock Trombley, 1999 as cited in Bayram, 2010. Because of the case, Daming decided to resign from court
because the urges from people through their comments, which also appeared in media.
1.3 Research Question
This research is carried out to answer the following questions: 1.
How is Muhammad Daming Sunusi represented in three Indonesian online newspapers?
2. What does the representation signify?
1.4 Aims of Study
The purposes of this study are:
a. To reveal the representation of Muhammad Daming Sunusi in seven
Indonesian online newspapers.
Riestia Handayani,2014 THE REPRESETNTATION OF THE JUDGE MUHAMMAD DAMING SUNUSI ON HIS CONTROVERISAL
STATEMENT: Critical Discourse Analysis of Indonesian Online Newspapers Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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| perpustakaan.upi.edu
b. To reveal the signification of the representation in the news.
1.5 Scope of Study
The present study investigates only the representation of the Judge Muhammad Daming Sunusi in the news and the signification of
representation revealed from the analysis. This study focuses on the relation of inclusion-exclusion in the text to reveal the representation. This
study uses six related articles of the Judge Muhammad Daming Sunusi wh
o said women “enjoy being raped” taken from three Indonesian online newspapers. The six news reports
were selected because the articles were the most frequently accessed by readers, which reach more than 3000
viewers. It is seen as the articles are at the top of the Google search engine. The online newspapers are also the national online newspapers.
1.6 Significance of Study
