Indonesian Supreme Court of Justice on 14 September 14th, 2018 decided to revoke the  law prohibiting  ex-corruptor to  register themselves as a candidate for legislative members. The decision made such pro-contra among Indonesia people represented on Indonesia medias. One of Indonesia media, Republika (in this research ,  it was represented by Republika Online/Republika.co.id) as an Islamic  media also issued the news articles about the MA’s decision. The media has been recognize to have a special relationship with Islamic political parties in Indonesia and  many top rank of the parties have been arrested for corruption cases.  In this reserach, I use Critical Discourse Analysis of Sara Mills method and also interview with Chief Editor and a senior journalist of the media to know about the policy of the media. The result of this research, Republika supported the MA’s decision by a number of  reasons.

Identity of Republika.co.id is also known by public has a very closed relationship with Indonesian Muslim communities and tend to follow the voice of Muslim people. So, how Republika publish its news related with corruption issues, if the issues related with a Muslim prominence people? Especially issued the news articles about Indonesian Supreme Court of Justice decided to revoke the law prohibiting excorruptor to register themselves as a candidate for legislative members. Some of the excorruptors come from Islamic political parties in Indonesia who want to come back as legislators. The decision made such pros-cons among Indonesian people represented on Indonesia medias. In this research, the authors use Critical Discourse Analysis of Sara Mills method to know how the Republika-as an Islamic oriented media-publishes a corruption issue. The result of this research, Republika supported the Indonesian Supreme Court of Justice's decision by a number of reasons.

<p class="MediumShading1-Accent12"><span lang="IN">During the first two years of Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla Government (2014-2015) in Indonesia, precisely 18 death row inmates who were guilty of drugs had been executed. The government believed that death penalty is the effective solution to overcome the high rate of narcotics crime. It becomes an interesting case due to the pressure of hegemony of the European Union over the government of Indonesia. One of the major national media in Indonesia, namely Republika.co.id, supports the implementation of death penalty. This studied aims to reveal the counter-hegemonic representation of Republika.co.id in opposing the hegemony of the EU related to the issue of Human Rights, particularly death penalty. This study applied Critical Discourse Analysis by Norman Fairclough and critical theory of Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci. The result shown that Republika represents counter-hegemonic in its reporting since it rejects the EU’s attitude considered to impose its standard principles of human rights on Indonesia.</span><strong></strong></p>

This study aims to analyze the online media coverage of JPNN.com on the political struggle within the Democratic Party related to the coup issue of the leadership of Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY). This study wants to explain the alignment of the online media JPNN.com towards one of the camps that are fighting for the highest power in the Democratic Party, namely the Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono camp and the Moeldoko camp. This study uses the concepts of political communication, mass media, online media, critical discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis of the Teun A. Van Dijk model in the context of Broadcasting and New Media. This study uses a critical paradigm with descriptive qualitative research methods. The data analysis method used is the critical discourse analysis of Teun A. Van Dijk. The data sources used are primary and secondary data sources, where the primary data sources come from news articles published by the online media JPNN.com related to the issue of the Democratic Party coup. Meanwhile, secondary data sources come from literature (books, journals, theses and data sources from the internet). After the research was conducted, it was found that the online media JPNN.com has a tendency to bring down the figure of Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) regarding the issue of the Democratic Party coup. This can be explained through the analysis of Teun A. van Dijk's critical discourse that has been carried out on the contents of the online media JPNN.com related to political battles within the Democratic Party.