Social Wrongs RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
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strategies, in the end, can prove that KPK ‘s working performance is not eligible
and trigger the Representatives with the recent president, Joko Widodo, to react recently within the making of the draft revision of the Law Commission no.
302002. The efforts to degrade KPK are the main problem. This condition can
damage sustainability of struggle for ‗Indonesian Unity‘ and stability of
Indonesia government agency because different opinions appear to state implicitly in anti-corruption discourse whether KPK existence is still needed to
eradicate corruption or not. The post-recruitment process, the KPK commissioners face the opinion that if an institution like KPK fails to hire the
correct people, it would be unable to achieve the desired results Hardjapamekas 2006: 176. Since the four commissioners have been charged for corruption,
those who against KPK declare this new-born commission has continued working for more or less than a decade and now are ineligible. Moreover, it is
difficult to trust KPK as the superiorsuper body if the commissioners are also corruptors. They misuse the
‗given‘ power. The efforts eradicating corruption recently seem useless unless the KPK
‘s authority is stated clearly in the revision of commission law.
Even though the context of law commission revision draft does not involve in the text, for researcher this discursive practice is really helpful to find
the foundation of the socio-political condition in Indonesia recently. Bourdieu 1991 states that through the competition between the agents involved in the
political field, political products e.g. issues, programs, analyses, commentaries, concepts, and events are created, and as the result, ordinary citizens have to
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choose with the running a risk of misunderstanding unless for they whose capacity is to produce and reproduce problematic political interest. The major concern
firstly comes from social problems in such social order about how corruption practices are still concealed by politicians who hold great capitals especially
symbolic capital and why KPK are merely weakened by common efforts exercises instead of using so much legal movement.
Secondly, this study should focus on another social problem, politicization.
Media plays a role through social practices as a site of politics. The politicization of media emerges to the involvement of society to speak publicly
‗words wreak havoc‘. The language use in media like the choice of vocabulary, metaphor, cliché and proverbs can draw the legitimacy and
authority to exert the power objectifying unformulated experiences of the world. The media role seems to represent the naming power of what civil
society would like to say and, by using its values media tries to construct public opinion Matheson, 2005. Sartre in Bourdieu 2008 makes a reference to
―when they words find a name for what had up to be namelessly
‖. Hence, it is manifested by fram
ing ‗corruption‘ in The Jakarta Post TJP news article. The news
‘ position clearly defines especially about the corruption Subjects: Suryadharma Ali SDA who is the senior politician and general leader of United
Development Party PPP occupying the religious affair minister and Sutan Batoeghana SB who is the senior politician of Democrat Party occupying the
head of Commission VII on energy at the House of Representatives. For example:
4. Indonesian Legal Roundtable ILR researcher Erwin Natosmal said
Suryadharma had made use of the weakened position of the KPK that
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resulted from multiple attacks that it withstood in the current crisis. 56, VI, A
5. Democratic Party central board member Benny Kabur Harman said
the party had anticipated that the Corruption Eradication Commission KPK would move to arrest senior Dems politician Sutan
Bhatoegana. 3, I, F
Indicated in bold, media tends to place its argument whether support anti- corruption practices. By employing Erwin Natosmal
‘s statement in sentence 4, TJP intends to show its interest in reporting SDA about the failure of the anti-
corruption movement. The strategy of avoiding investigation and detention are taken because KPK
‘s authority is weakened. Moreover, in the sentence 5, TJP intends to show its interest in quoting Benny Kabur Herman
‘s statement in relation to his political position in Democratic Party. The implication of his
indirect statement is that TJP shows its support KPK‘s law enforcement. Public participation is of the essence in the fight against corruption
Hardjapamekas, 2006. The researcher concludes: first, the language used by the journalists can indicate their knowledge, perception, norm, belief and value
as an important semiotic aspect in this analysis and, second, TJP‘s
inconsistency can influence certain reader whether support anti-corruption practices.