News Framing about Physical Construction in Jakarta Flood Management

Abstract

The 2020 flood in Jakarta has brought people’s attention as it paralyzed the city’s activities. Different than other kinds of natural disaster like earthquake, tsunami, and mountain eruption, flood in Jakarta is a predictable event that could have been anticipated. In natural disasters, there should be a study to acquire the description of media coverage tendency toward the issue. The objects of this research are news published by Kompas (print media) during and post-flood disaster by using the framing method with four elements syntaxis, script, thematic, and rhetoric. The result suggested that news framing focuses no longer on the victims’ misery but on the comprehensive review with highlighted the rational argumentation flood handling from physical construction and resulted in meaningful information on mitigation effort so that natural events would not transform into disaster.

Domination criticism and freedom criticism on flood news in online media from a Foucauldian view

“…According to several previous studies, the ideological content of flood disaster narratives in Indonesia is always related to political issues (Artiningsih et al 2016, Dwifatma 2018, Handayani et al 2019, Pinontoan & Wahid 2020, Puspitasari 2020, Wardyaningrum 2022. This indicates that the power relations are becoming more clearly legible when compared to previous flood reporting.…”

Peningkatan Pengetahuan tentang Jurnalisme Bencana pada Jurnalis Media Online di Kota Bengkulu

“…Sebagaimana konsep media massa dalam menjalankan fungsi pengawasannya. Pada fungsi pengawasan, masyarakat menggunakan media untuk memantau semua jenis informasi yang terjadi, baik di lingkungan mereka maupun di seluruh dunia (Turow dalam Wardyaningrum, 2022). Media menjadi fokus dalam membangun peliputan jurnalisme bencana yang baik, karena pada dasarnya kebijakan media akan memengaruhi perspektif jurnalis…”