Abstract

The presidential election in Indonesia, which will take place in April 2019, brings up Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto as candidates. Before August 10, 2018, the two candidates have sought best candidates for Vice President. They lead intensive political lobbies. The media often publish various political events, printed as well as online media, including the Gazette of Bali and Les Echos. The purpose of this research is to find representations of Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto on both online media and what messages they sent to readers. To collect data, we used the method of intensive reading of the discourses that represent the candidates, published from January up to the beginning of August 2018 with the copy texts technique. By analyzing we used Theo van Leeuwen’s Critical Discourse Analysis and Halliday’s transitivity. The analysis shows that bali-gazette.com and LesEchos.fr represented more positively Joko Widodo than Prabowo Subianto which means that the two media online would have a preference for Joko Widodo (the incumbent and the 2019 candidate 2019) rather than Prabowo Subianto (2019 candidate). Their preference would be an economic motive rather ideological since the Bali Gazette is a cultural-tourism-culinary journal and Les Échos is an economic-financial journal. So, there is the relationship between discourse and (policy) economic.

Keywords

Representation, critical discourse analysis, economic motive

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