Alleged Religion Blasphemy in Contemporary Indonesia
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 8
Abstract
This study is aimed at describing the discourse on religion blasphemy in contemporary Indonesia. It is intended to figure out the context of situation and the ideology behind the texts. The research methodology is based on systemic functional linguistics. The findings suggest that the three main texts can be highlighted in terms of Field, Tenor and Mode. The Field in text # 1 has something to do with reporting that police have questioned Indonesia's most prominent governor, whose alleged blasphemy sparked a mass demonstration in the country's capital that descended into violence.The case is being ushered through following the Friday violence which followed a demonstration by around 100,000 people outside Jakarta's presidential palace calling for the ethnic Chinese governor to face charges of publicly insulting Islam. Text # 2 deals with reported that 100,000 signatures calling for legal action against the man who appears to have incited the protests on 4 November in Jakarta. BuniYani, a former journalist and communications professor at the London School in Central Jakarta, has confessed to manipulating the words of the capital’s governor, which led to charges of blasphemy against him. Text # 3 is concerned with anti-Ahok sentiments, which peaked at the Nov.4 rally by Islamic organizations against the governor’s alleged blasphemous speech, were considered only political maneuvers amid the Jakarta gubernatorial election campaign but these would destroy diversity in the country if ignored. Tenor analyses suggest that all those three texts indicate that the roles the participants are playing are those in which they are of equal power. Mode analyses argue that there is no visual or aural contact between the writer and the reader(s) in Text # 1, Text # 2 and Text # 3, and thus no possibility of immediate feedback and even the possibilities of delayed feedback are limited. The impact of ideology register includes by whom they are initiated, what sort of actions or events are discussed, by whom the actions are responded, and how.
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Djoko Sutopo
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