Abstract

Flores Island is one of the diverse place despite its small size as the part of Indonesian East Archipelago and Lesser Sunda Island. We all know that regional language or local language is an intellectual and cultural property. Local language lives and develops in an area or community. There are many regional languages accustomed to be used as a means of communication. The use of local language with its different meanings in a region or community that is no longer homogeneous can be a trigger to cultural conflict. The causes of conflict among residents or cultural believers are assimilation and mixing of heterogeneous local language-speaking communities. This study aims at revealing the existence of cultural conflicts as a result of the meaning differences of local languagesused by the people on Flores Island. This study uses a critical linguistics approach with a cross-cultural communication paradigm.

<span lang="EN-US">Surat kabar di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) memproduksi dan mengontruksi sejumlah teks berita korupsi. Penelitian ini hendak mencermati dengan perspektif kritis wacana korupsi tersebut. Peneliti menggunakan analisis wacana kritis (Critical Discourse Analysis/CDA) yang ditawarkan oleh Teun A. van Dijk untuk menganalisis teks, kognisi sosial dan konteks sosial. Data teks berita korupsi dihimpun peneliti dari ketiga media massa lokal tersebut, sedangkan data kognisi sosial diperoleh melalui wawancara dengan wartawan yang menulis berita korupsi serta data konteks sosial dihimpun dari sebuah LSM yang concern dengan masalah korupsi di NTT yakni PIAR-NTT serta melalui observasi lapangan. Peneliti menganalisis ketiga elemen wacana yakni teks, kognisi sosial, dan konteks sosial. Temuan dari penelitian ini adalah berita korupsi dari surat kabar di NTT adalah adanya faktor yang turut mempengaruhi terbentuknya teks berita korupsi menjadi berita yang elitis seperti kepemilikan media, relasi kuasa dari aparat penegak hukum dan pejabat daerah. Media massa cetak dapat terkooptasi oleh kepentingan pemilik modal, pasar atau negara. Konsep van Dijk tentang media yang tidak netral diafirmasikan kembali di dalam penelitian ini. Sikap kritis tentu sangat dibutuhkan oleh siapa saja yang membaca berita pada media massa.</span>

Background. Decentralization of the authority to manage government and regional development has been regulated in Law Number 32 of 2014 concerning Regional Government. However, in its implementation there are many deviations found in the form of corruption of local officials causing a loss of quality in human resources. The researcher tried to reveal the role of local mass media to control local governance so that its implementation did not cause corruption in the development budget carried out by regional government officials. Method and material. Using qualitative analysis of news texts published by local mass media with and content of corrupt behavior of regional officials in East Nusa Tenggara Province. Various secondary data is used to supplement this research information. Respondents of journalists and local media editor in chief. Results. Local media coverage revealed 100 regional heads were arrested and convicted of corruption. The impact of the worsening social conditions in the East Nusa Tenggara the high prevalence of stunting is 40.30%; 2,669 infants with malnourished babies, 1,142,790 poor people (21.35%) in 2018. Conclusion. It has been punished by regional officials who are perpetrators of corruption as a result of local media coverage. Corruption has a systemic impact on decreasing the quality of human resources in East Nusa Tenggara.