A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS: THE SEVERITY OF MOUNT MERAPI ERUPTION PORTRAYED ON KEMAL JUFRI’S PHOTOS AS THE 2ND PRIZE STORIES WINNER OF WORLD PRESS PHOTO.

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A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS: THE SEVERITY OF MOUNT MERAPI ERUPTION

PORTRAYED ON KEMAL JUFRI’S PHOTOS AS THE 2ND

PRIZE STORIES WINNER OF WORLD PRESS PHOTO

A Research Paper

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Sarjana Sastra Degree in Indonesia University of Education

ARIEF MAULANA HASAN (0808727)

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

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A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS: THE SEVERITY OF MOUNT MERAPI

ERUPTION PORTRAYED ON KEMAL JUFRI’S PHOTOS AS THE 2ND PRIZE

STORIES WINNER OF WORLD PRESS PHOTO

A Research Paper

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Sarjana Sastra Degree in Indonesia University of Education

April 2014

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ABSTRACT

This Paper Entitled “A Semiotic Analysis: The Severity of Mount Merapi Eruption Portrayed on Kemal Jufri’s Photos as The 2nd _{Prize Stories Winner of World Press Photo”. It is aimed to}

uncover the meaning behind the photographs and to discover symbols, indexes and modes that appear in the photo stories. The study is qualitative which utilizes Eco’s (1994) Hermetic drift theory. The theory mainly focuses on the meaning of a symbol which not only has one meaning, but two or more meaning if the symbol is put in a different context. The main data are 12 photographs which were used in the photo stories taken from www.wordpressphoto.org. The study revealed the Juffri’s photo stories about the disaster of Mt. Merapi eruption. The symbols, indexes and modes in the photo stories signify the damages, losses, death, and suffering of the people people near Mt. Merapi, which directly got the worst effect of the disaster. The photo story also portrays collectiveness of Indonesian people to help the victims of the disaster.

Keywords: Semiotic, Symbolic analysis, index analysis, modes analysis, Photojournalism, Photo analysis

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents the background of the study which consists of background, research question, aims of study, scope of the study, significance of the study, research methodology, classification of the terms and organization of the paper. The research methodology is divided into data collection, data analysis, and data interpretation and conclusion. This sub-chapter briefly describes the method used in collecting and analyzing the data.

1.1 Background of the Study

Semiotics is a study which concerns everything that can be taken as „signs‟.

The study also concerns meaning-making and representation of the sign in words, images, sounds, gesture and object (Chandler, 2002, p. 2). Signs are never arbitrary,

and „motivation‟ should be formulated in relation to the sign-maker and the context in which the sign is produced, and not in isolation from the act of producing analogies

and classiﬁcations (Kress, 2006, p. 8). Therefore, semiotics can be used to analyze the signs that appear in the images. Eeverything that appears in the images can be recognized as the sign such as footprint, thunder and smoke.

Peirce (as cited in Chandler, 2002, p. 38) says a symbol is a sign which refers to an object denoted by virtue of a law, usually an association of general ideas, which operates to cause the symbol to be interpreted as referring to some object. Then, index is the element of the signs which is not arbitrary but directly connected in some way (physically or causally) to the signified in which the link can be observed and inferred (Chandler, 2002, p 37). As a result, photos or images can contain symbols and indexes that build the meaning of the images. There are some examples of photos

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that contain symbols and indexes, such as news photographs. As one of media products, news photographs or known as photojournalism not only consists of pictures of events but also covers news and facts (Becker, 1995, p. 5).

In photojournalism, there is a term called “narrative photo” or “photo story”.

Unlike a written story, a compelling photo story requires not only complication and resolution, but also action that can be photographed (Kobré, 2004, p. 147). Accordingly, a photo story cannot stand for only a single photo to make meaning, but there should be two photos or more to create a story line. The story line determines the sequences of pictures in the layout (Kobré, 2004, p. 159). A photo essay is simply a collection of images that is placed in a specific order to describe the progression of events, emotions, and concepts (Dickson, 2012). An example of a photo story was photographed by James Nachtwey entitled beyond 9/11: Portraits of resilience (Time, 2001). The photo tells about the tragedy of 9/11 when World Trade Center was crashed. The photo story contains 14 photos.

There is also a photo story about the tragedy of Mount Merapi‟s eruption. Mount Merapi is one of the world‟s most active volcanoes. Mount Merapi is located in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The last eruption of Mount Merapi happened on October 2010. The phenomenon has been the largest eruption since 1870 (BBC, 2010). The eruption made the area near Mount Merapi was covered by ashes released by Mount Merapi. This phenomenon caused more than 70.000 people to have been evacuated. In the disaster, one hundred people had been killed, many animals had also been killed, and many of the local people had been injured (BBC, 2010). The eruption attracted worldwide attention, especially the journalists and photographers.

Many journalists and photographers came to the area near Mount Merapi to report the phenomenon. One of the journalist photographers who came to report the phenomenon was Kemal Jufri. Kemal Jufri joined the World Press Photo contest in 2011 by sending Mount Merapi eruption photos. He won the second prize winner of World Press Photo 2011 (World Press Photo, 2011). In his picture, he showed the

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severity of Mount Merapi eruption, such as the eruption, the victims and the area affected.

Kemal Jufri is an Indonesian journalist photographer who won the world press photo competition, World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955, the organization is known in

holding the world‟s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest

(Worldpressphoto.org). In the first fifty years of establishment, World Press Photo has become a truly global platform for professional press photography (Panzer, 2005) . The mission of World Press Photo competition is to encourage high professional standards in photojournalism and to promote a free and unrestricted exchange of information.

Some studies have investigated photojournalism by using semiotic analysis. In 2001, Kibbey investigated semiotics of photographic evidence. While in 2010, Lovelace investigated Vietnam War photographs. In Indonesia, Pratiwi (2009) investigated female sex workers in photo journalism.

To achieve the purpose of the study, some theoretical approaches were needed as the research foundation. This research is based on the semiotic theory of signification by Umberto Eco (1994) to analyze symbols and indexes that portray the severity of Mount Merapi eruption in 12 photographs in the photo story of Kemal Jufri as the second winner of World Press Photo. Eco (as cited in Innis, 1985, p. 4) says that "signification encompasses the whole of cultural life and the subject matter of semiotics is co-extensive with the whole range of cultural phenomena, however

pretentious that approach may at first seem.”. Since the photographs comes as a

visual media to deliver the information or messages, the photographs have to use various signs and symbol as attempts to create particular meaning. A study of the sign semiotics can be applied to examine the hidden meanings in the photograph.

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The research problems are formulated in the following questions:

1. What are the symbols, indexes and modes that appear in Kemal Jufri‟s photos as the second prize winner of World Press Photo 2011?

2. What do these symbols, indexes and modes signify?

1.3 Aims of the Study

Based on the research question above, the study aims to:

1. Discover the symbols, indexes and modes that appear in Kemal Jufri‟s photo as the second prize winner of World Press Photo 2011

2. Reveal the severity of Mount Merapi eruption portrayed by the symbols, indexes and modes in Kemal Jufri‟s photo as the second prize winner of World Press Photo 2011.

1.4 Scope of the Study

The research investigates Kemal Jufri‟s 12 photo story about Mount Merapi

eruption as the second prize winner of World Press Photo 2011.

1.5 Significance of the Study

This research examines the photos of Kemal Jufri as the second prize winner of World Press Photo 2011. This research investigates the symbols and indexes that

appear in Kemal Jufri‟s photos and also analyzes the modes in the photos. Moreover,

the readers can realize the symbols and indexes that appear in Kemal Jufri‟s photo of

Mount Merapi, and realize that photos are not only photos, but there are signs and modes indicated in the photos.

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1.6.1. Research Method

The research focuses on investigating the portrayal of the severity and social awareness in Mount Merapi eruption by the symbol, indexes and also modes that

appear in Kemal Jufri‟s photos that won the second prize winner of World Press

Photo 2011 by using a semiotic analysis proposed by Eco (1994). The research uses a qualitative method. Qualitative research, on the other hand, is concerned with qualitative phenomenon, i.e., phenomena relating to or involving quality or kind (Mothari, 2004). It means that in qualitative research, the data does not in the form of statistical or quantification data. Qualitative research is about describing the analysis of data qualitatively.

The data investigated in the research were in the form of photos. The data were collected from the World Press Photo website on the Internet.

1.6.2. Procedures of the Research

In conducting this study, the following procedures were taken: 1. Data Collection

The photo story of mount Merapi eruption was selected to be the source of data. It contains 12 photographs. The data is containing symbol, indexes and

modes that related to the context which can be analyzed by Eco‟s Hermetic

Drift theory. The data were taken from World Press Photo website on

www.worldpressphoto.org. World Press Photo is the largest organization which holds the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest (The Express Group, 2013). The relevant theories are also figured out based on library research.

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In this study, the data analysis was based on the Hermetic Drift theory by Eco (1994) to analyze the symbol and indexes. In addition, visual modality also analyzed to discover meaning behind the modes in the photo story photographed by Kemal Jufri to portray the severity of Mount Merapi eruption in the www.worldpressphoto.org. Umberto Eco Order of signification was employed to analyze and discover the hidden meanings of this photo story. The theory defined as an instance of connotative neoplasm. There is a phenomenon of connotation when a sign function (expression plus content) becomes in turn the expression of a further content.

3. Interpretation of Data and Conclusions

The data were interpreted by reflecting on how finding relate to the existing research. The data were interpreted to reveal the symbol, indexes and

modes to portray the severity of Mount Merapi eruption in the Kemal Jufri‟s

photo story as a second prize winner of World Press Photo Contest.

1.7 Clarification of the Terms

There are some terms that are mentioned in the study that might be needed: 1. SEMIOTICS

Semiotics is a study which concerns with everything that can be taken as

„signs‟. It also concerns with meaning-making and representation of the sign in the form of words, images, sounds, gesture and object (Chandler, 2002, p. 2).

2. SIGN

Sign is anything which produces meanings (Thwaites, et al, 1994, p.7).

3. SYMBOL

Symbol is a sign which refers to object denoted by virtue of a law, usually an association of general ideas, which operates to cause the symbol to be

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interpreted as referring that object (Peirce, 1931, as cited in Chandler, 2002, p. 38).

4. PHOTOJOURNALISM

Photojournalism is not only a picture of an event but also covers news and fact (Becker, 1995, p. 5).

5. NARRATIVE PHOTO

Narrative photo is very simply a collection of images that are placed in a specific order to tell the progression of events, emotions, and concepts (Dickson, 2012).

6. ERUPTION

Eruption is a phenomenon that begins when pressure on a magma chamber forces magma up through the conduit and out the volcano's vents. When the magma chamber has been completely filled, the type of eruption partly depends on the amount of gases and silica in the magma. The amount of silica determines how sticky (level of viscosity) the magma is and water provides the explosive potential of steam (Oracle ThinkQuest, 1998).

7. WORLD PRESS PHOTO

World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955 the organization is known in holding the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest (www.worldpressphoto.org).

1.8 Organization of the Paper

This study is divided into five chapters, as follows: CHAPTER I

The first chapter discusses introduction of the research, including the background of the research, the research questions, the aims of the research, the scope of the study, the significance of the study, the research methodology, the classification of terms, and the organization of the paper.

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CHAPTER II

The second chapter discusses the theoretical frameworks and the literature reviews.

CHAPTER III

In the third chapter, the discussion is around the research methodology. It describes the steps and procedures of the study.

CHAPTER IV

The fourth chapter presents the findings and a discussion of the research. CHAPTER V

The last chapter discusses the conclusions of the research and the suggestions for further research.

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CHAPTER 3

RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter focuses on the methodological aspects of this research. It starts with formulation of problem, the explanation of the research method and design followed by stages of the research procedure. The data collection is also presented together with the data analysis in this chapter.

1.1 Formulation of Problem

The problems in this study are formulated into the following questions:

1. What are the symbols, indexes and modes that appear in Kemal Jufri’s photos as the second prize winner of World Press Photo 2011?

2. What do these symbols, indexes and modes signify?

1.2 Research Method

This study was conducted by using a qualitative method. Maxwell (1996) states that a qualitative method aims to investigate and understand certain object, event or phenomena, discourses, behavior, a set of condition or situation in the particular context in which people are involved and experienced with. In other ways, qualitative method is a method systematically involving and gathering enough about particular person, social setting, event, or group to permit researcher to effectively understand how the subject operate or function (Berg, 2007). Photograph is the data which contains information, social setting and event, therefore it can be analyzed by using particular theory by using descriptive qualitative method to interpret the meaning behind the photographs.

The research aims to uncover the hidden meaning and describe the

portrayal the severity of mount Merapi eruption on Kemal Juffri’s photo. This

study uses a descriptive qualitative approach framed in Eco’s (1994) Hermetic Drift theory to achieve the aims of the study.

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Moreover, this study uses Eco’s Hermetic Drift (1994) which consists of

Representamen (denotation) and Immediate Object (connotation). This connotation was determined by a given context.

a) Procedure of Data Collection

In conducting the research, the data collection was undertaken by:

1. Preparing investigation conducted by library and online research for related references about journalism and photojournalism.

2. Collecting the data of Kemal Juffri’s photos about Mount Merapi eruption in 2011 from www.worldpressphoto.org.

3. Analyzing the data based on semiotic analysis. The photos were

analyzed though the concept of Eco’s (1994) Hermetic Drift theory to

uncover the symbols and indexes that come up in the data.

4. Using visual modality element to analyze the meaning behind the modes.

5. Drawing conclusions and suggestions; the conclusions were obtained from the findings and discussions, while suggestions were made for the interest of further studies.

b) Data Source and Collection

The data consisted of the photo essays of Mount Merapi eruption taken from www.worldpressphoto.org as the 2nd story winner photographed by Indonesian photojournalist, Kemal Juffri. Here, The photo essays of Mount Merapi eruption were the data source of this study because the disaster was the hot issues in the world mass media and was the 2nd winner in the most prestigious press photo competition in the world.

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Photo 1 Photo 2

Photo 3 Photo 4

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Source: www.worldpressphoto.org

To conclude, there were 12 photographs of Kemal Juffri about the disaster of Mount Merapi eruption taken from www.wordpreesphoto.org. Furthermore, the photos were analyzed by using Eco’s (1994) Hermetic Drift theory to discover hidden meaning behind the photographs, specifically about the portrayal of the severity of mount Merapi eruption in 2011.

Photo 7 Photo 8

Photo 9 Photo 10

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1. The present study was conducted to examine the symbols, and indexes

that appear in Kemal Jufri’s photo and reveal the severity of Mount

Merapi eruption portrayed by symbol, indexes and modes in Kemal

Jufri’s photo as the second prize winner of World Press Photo 2011. Miles and Huberman (1994) state that the data analysis consists of three steps: first of all is data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing/verification.

2. Photos were selected by selecting photo story from the websites www.wordpressphoto.org as the data and focusing the data which appears in photos which is called as data reduction. After focusing the data based on the aim of the study, the data display is ready to have the further action. Understanding what is happening and analyzing the data based on the particular theory can be applied after the data display emerges. The final step is to conclude the data that has been analyzed. 3. Semiotic analysis was used to examine the portrayal of severity of

mount Merapi eruption in the Kemal Juffri’s photos. Each symbol,

index and mode that appears in the photos was analyzed by using

Eco’s (1994) Hermetic Drift which concerns in the meaning of the

symbols referring to particular contexts. The focuses of analysis were on the element of content 1 (C1) which represents the first content or literal meaning of sign in the photos, also the elaboration of content 2 (C2) which represents a connotation which comes from the symbols, indexes and modes that appear in the photos with local and global meaning and lastly is the analysis of context 3 (C3) which represents the meaning of the sign according to a context given.

Following is an example of analysis Hermetic Diagram analysis

proposed by Eco’s (1994). The diagram below is described by Hjemselv (1961) and made popular by Barthes (Eco, 1994, p.30). The

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diagram represents the phenomenon of connotation which derived from the classification of the first, second and third content.

Expression Context

Table 3.2 The diagram of connotation Phenomenon Source: Eco, 1994:30

In the table above, E stands for Expression and C stands for Content. It

describes that “there is a phenomenon of connotation when a sign function

(expression plus content) becomes in turn the expression of a further content (Eco, 1994, p.29).

The meaning of connotative use must also be determined by context, this phenomenon of connotation is developed further by Eco. He proposed an idea named as neoplastic connotative growth where the content of the first one (Eco, 1994, p.30). It is described in a table based on Eco’s Hermetic Drift theory below:

Context (C3) Expression (E3)

Expression (E1) Content (C2)

Expression (E2)

Content (C1)

Table 3.3 Diagram of Neoplastic connotative growth Source: Eco (1994)

The table above is a new pseudo-connotative chain proposed by Eco (1994) which deals with the context of the sign in the Hermetic Drift theory.

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To obtain a comprehensive analysis, symbol and indexes that appear in each photograph were analyzed by using Eco’s Hermetic Drift (1994) theory. The

analysis which uses Eco’s (1994) is based on such components as E1, C1, C2, and

C3. E1 represents an expression or sign. C1 represents the first content or literal

meaning of the sign. C2 or the second content represents a connotation which

comes from the expression (E1) plus the first content (C1). The last is C3 or the

third content which represents the meaning of the sign according to a context given. Thus, to fully understand the connotative meaning in the photograph, the color, pose, facial expression, fashion, and the basic techniques of photography are elaborated in the analysis to uncover the meaning of the photographs. The data presentation is presented as follows:

Opening photo in the essays of Mount Merapi eruption

(Connotation + context) Critical Disaster

E1 + Context

Mount Merapi spews volcanic material

E1 (Sign) Mount Merapi

(Connotation which comes from the expression) Mount Merapi spews the volcanic ash indicating a

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massive eruption

E1 (Expression of the

sign) Mount Merapi

Erupted

(First content or literal meaning of the sign) Eruption is the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and

volcanic material

Table 3.4 Diagram of Neoplastic connotative growth Source: Eco (1994)

The First E1 in the table shows the sign in the photo. It portrays the Mount

Merapi spew the volcanic ash. The second E1 shows the denotative sign or literal

meaning of the sign and the third E1 shows the meaning of the sign referring to the

context in this case Mount Merapi spews the ash showing the massive and critical eruption. The symbols in this sign are ashes and gray smoke. It symbolizes critical and massive eruption that caused destruction while the ashes and smoke are indexes of massive volcanic activity.

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CHAPTER 5

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter provides the conclusions of present study based on the findings and discussion that have been presented in the previous chapter. It also contains the suggestions for the readers of the present study who might be interested in conducting research discussed in the present study.

5.1 Conclusions

This study, a semiotic analysis of the severity of mount Merapi eruption

portrayed in Kemal juffri’s photos as the 2nd prize stories winner of World Press Photo, aims to reveal the severity of Mt. Merapi eruption portrayed in the Juffri

photo story, using Eco’s Hermetic Drift (1994). In addition, the symbol, index and

mode are also analyzed to uncover the whole meaning in the photographs.

The signs appeared in the photo were analyzed by Eco’s (1994) hermetic drift, which involves the context of the sign to reveal the meaning behind the photograph. In the story, it can be concluded that (50%) of the symbols signify damages and losses, (33.33%) of the symbols signify suffering of the people and (16,67%) of the symbols signify death. Whereas the indexes in the photo stories, it can be concluded that (58,33%) of the indexes signify damages and losses, (25%) of the indexes signify suffering of the people, and (16,67%) of the indexes signify death. While the element of modes in the story shows that (58.3%) of the photos in the story are dominated by grey & black color. According to Zammito (2005), those colors are related to death and sadness. The fashion identity in this photo shows the people wearing uniform and collar. According to Barnard (2006), the uniform is related to the collectivism, in the stories, people who wear the uniform appeared in (25%) of the photos and collar related to the citizens appeared (8,3%) of the photos. A sad facial expression indicated by mouth open, corners of the lips down, raised cheek, eyes look downward and upper eyelids drop (Ekman & Keltner,2000) appeared in the (25%) photos in the story.

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The research found that the Juffri’s photo story about the disaster of Mt. Merapi eruption portrays the suffering of the people near Mt. Merapi, which directly got the worst effect of the eruption disaster. The photo story also portrays collectiveness of Indonesian people to help the victims of the disaster.

5.2 Suggestions

After conducting the research, there are some suggestions related to the present study:

1. The next researcher can explore other genres of photojournalism such as portraiture story, documentary and photo essay based on the related issue using semiotic analysis.

2. The next researcher may find other online prestigious photo competition to pick the data such as from the winner of Pulitzer.

3. The next researcher may also analyze the caption in the photo by using particular framework such as functional grammar.

4. The next researcher may also combine the qualitative data with quantitative data in order to get an objective result.

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1. The next researcher can explore other genres of photojournalism such as

portraiture story, documentary and photo essay based on the related issue using semiotic analysis.

2. The next researcher may find other online prestigious photo competition to

pick the data such as from the winner of Pulitzer.

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