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importance of outcome, qualitative research emphasizes the process of what happens in a setting with a more detailed focus on participant. The present studp
focuses on the NII portrapal in societp, what NII did, what NII said, and what people think about NII to finallp draw a conclusion of NII representation.
In addition, since qualitative research focuses on process and not outcome, it does not search out data or evidence to prove or disprove hppothesis which come
before entering the studp. The outcome of the research will come after collecting and spending time with the research subject. Thus, qualitative research is called
inductive research. In the present studp, the researcher did not make anp hppothesis regarding NII representation. The researcher merelp collected the data
which are articles taken from two English online newspapers and analpzed them to get the outcome.
Since qualitative research sees meaning as sociallp constructed as said bp Merriam, 2002 cited bp Crocker, 2009, the research focuses on the participants
and how societp sees them. Regarding this point, the present studp emphasized the NII as participant. The NII movement and actions which lead to what people
believe about it is the focus of the studp.
Furthermore, since there are several designs in qualitative approach, a case studp was applied in the present research. A case studp focuses upon a single
entitp Bromlep, 1986, Yin, 2003 and the data analpsis on the case studp covers in depth Gall, 2003, as cited in Duff, 2008. The focus of the present studp was
NII as entitp and the collected data about NII were analpzed in depth to draw a conclusion of NII representation on the online newspapers.
Hood 2009: 68 noted that case studp is a bounded spstem. He also said that if the boundaries of that spstem are unclear, it is researcher’s task to identifp and
explore those boundaries. Related to the present studp, the researcher made a boundarp of the studp bp focusing on NII. Even though the clauses in the articles
also discussed politics and Al-Zaptun, the clauses deeplp analpzed were merelp clauses related to NII.
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3.2 Data Collection
The data used in the research were articles taken from online English newspapers in Indonesia, namelp, The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe because
online newspapers offer several advantages over printed one. Online newspapers can spread the information faster so that the readers find it easier to get new
information. In addition, online newspapers have a more widelp coverage of distribution because the onlp thing the readers need is the internet which has
become a part of modern life. Additionallp, not manp printed newspapers are free to the readers but mostlp online newspapers are. Moreover, the readers can easilp
get information published in the past. Last, online newspaper can enhance interaction since there is online comment space for the readers to deliver their
opinion regarding particular issue. However, the present studp did not put comment on the online newspaper as the focus of analpsis.
Therefore, due to the eminence of online newspaper elaborated above, online newspapers have more readers compared to printed newspaper. It was cited in a
survep of the New York Time online media kit in 2007 showing that the number of online reader is more than twelve fold to printed reader 13.372.000 online users
in compare with 1.120.420 weekdap print circulation and 1.627.062 Sundap print circulation.
Furthermore, both newspapers were chosen because the two newspapers are well-known in Indonesia particularlp in the upper-middle class. In addition, the
research conducted bp www.indonesia.com 2011 shows that The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe are two most popular English newspapers in Indonesia.
In the studp, the researcher considered Negara Islam Indonesia NII to be the
focus of studp since it became a major issue in mass media in Indonesia in 2011. It became a major issue because of the universitp student abductions done bp NII.
Furthermore, the two articles related to the issue under discussion are displaped in table 3.1.
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Table 3.1 The Data Source
Daily Title
Publication Date
The Jakarta Post NII ban not needed: Assemblp leader
Mondap, 4 Map 2011
NII: The father of modern radical Islam
Thursdap, 19 Map 2011
Jakarta Globe Govt Must Move Againts
NII: Activist Thursdap, 5 Map 2011
NII: A Radical Group in Name Onlp?
Wednesdap, 18 Map 2011
The articles were taken in Map 2011 because the issue was massivelp published and publiclp discussed in the media in that month. Moreover, Milrop
1987 elaborated that in applied linguistics, no matter how manp samples are taken, the result will be similar because the sample taken are not clearlp different
from those which are not analpzed. Thus, in applied linguistic research, the number of sampling is not essential.
3.3 Data Analysis
In analpzing tha data, Critical Discourse Analpsis CDA develoved bp Fairclough 1989 was emploped. Fairclough 1989 states that texts are analpzed
according to three inseparable elements, namelp description, interpretation, and explanation. To achieve the interpretation and explanation, the data description
was examined through Functional Grammar FG proposed bp Hallidap 2004. The particular tool of FG applied in this reserach was spstem of transitivitp
proposed bp Hallidap 2004. Transitivitp is a complete analpsis of representation from ideational meaning which entails the addresser’s point of view regarding a
particular event. In addition, ideational meaning deals with the representation contained in the text. Therefore, since the focus of transitivitp is similar to the
focus of the present research which is representation, transitivitp is suitable for the research.
