Neoliberalism Reported In The News Media About Indonesian Nickel Minang: A Cristical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

Following Fairclough's three dimensional analysis of CDA (2013), the aims of this current research is to provide evidences that neoliberalism as an ideology behind the media reportings about Indonesian nickel mining triggers social injustice. Thoroughly selected as the sources of media, Reuters and Bloomberg highlight surging economic growth is accessible for Indonesia. This issue is correlated with a great multi-national company, Tesla, which has targeted to massively produce electric vehicle. Therefore, several sorted clauses of both media are analysed by using Halliday & Matthiessen's transitivity analysis (2014) to identify the linguistic features representing the ideology of neoliberalism. Concerning on the definition and the key words of neoliberalism, the selected texts obviously contain this ideological meaning through 25 sentences as the data in this current research. It can be viewed from the elements of transitivity system; participants for example ―CEO Elon Musk‖, ―The process of making nickel suitable for EV batteries‖, ―WTO‖, ―The success of its strategy to boost investment in smelting‖, and ―Investment Minister‖, process types such as ―has encouraged‖, ―has pulled out‖, and ―ruled‖, and circumstances ―Like Musk‖, ―to the World Bank‘s high-income threshold‖, and ―with the world's largest reserves of nickel and a ban on the export of nickel ore‖. It establishes facts about promoting and spreading neoliberalism to drive the economic increase in Indonesia related to nickel agreement with electric vehicle company.