Discourse of Islam on the Online Forum: Discourse Analysis of Usersr Postings in Subforum News and Politics Kaskus

Abstract

Kaskus is one of the largest forums in Indonesia. One of the subforums in Kaskus is news and politics. Many ideological discourses are contesting in this subforum. One interesting topic in this subforum is a discourse about Islam. Various users construct Islam differently from one another and construct contestation of Islam. Sometimes this contestations have gone with flame wars. This practice is common in this subforum. Users reproduce such culture to discuss certain topic. This research analyses the discourse of Islam in the context of contemporary Indonesian. Researchers study how users construct the discourse of Islam. This research focus on the how is representation of social actors. This analyze based on the discourse approach by Theo Van Leeuwen. The data of this research is users' posts in the threads and their posts history. This research explains how users excludes and includes various ideas related to Islam. Users are contesting certain idea about Islam in Kaskus. This contestation related with netiquette and history of political discourse in this subforum.