Interpreting Identity of Republika.co.id as Indonesian Islamic Media News Regarding Corruption Cases

Abstract

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.