REPRESENTATION OF INJUSTICE IN POS-KUPANG.COM'S COVERAGE OF THE BESIPAE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
(NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH'S CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS)
Abstract
This research was carried out to uncover the practice of producing injustice about the Besipae
Indigenous people in Pos-Kupang.Com news based on the analysis of Norman Fairclough's
critical discourse. In achieving these efforts, a qualitative method was used with analysis
techniques from Fairclough consisting of text analysis, discursive practices, and socio-cultural
practices. Based on the results of this study, information was obtained that (a) from the aspect of
the partiality of the text of the Pos-Kupang.Com news emerged with the use of diction choices
(vocabulary), the use of grammar, coherence, a series of sentences, and elements of
intertextuality that sought to legitimize the position of the NTT Provincial Government in
Besipae and rationalize the acts of violence that have been launched by the NTT Provincial
Government against the local community. (b) The process of media news production cannot be
separated from the socio-cultural context that underpins it, including: (1) situational level,
where news production Pos-Kupang.Com clash with the massive rejection of the Besipae
community, (2) institutional level, which can be captured from the dominance of the NTT
Provincial Government's statements in the news. (3) At the social level, the researcher found that
there is a political choice of this mass media that tends to legitimize the position of the NTT
Provincial Government in Besipae.