THE REPRESENTATION OF INDONESIA’S POLICY TOWARDS DUO BALI NINE AS REPORTED BY THE JAKARTA POST AND THE AUSTRALIAN: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Abstract

This thesis deals with the investigation of the representation Indonesia‟s policy towards Bali Nine as reported by The Jakarta Post and The Australian. It aims to know how the media represent this issue and reveal the bias of the media towards this issue using Interpersonal analysis of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) by Halliday (2004) supported by Butt et al. (1995) and Eggins (2004). Because this thesis tries to analyze the power abuse of media, this thesis uses the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by Fairclough (1989). This analysis divides into three steps which are describing the text (microanalysis), interpreting the discursive practice (mesoanalysis), and explaining the social practice (macroanalysis).