Comparison of Religious Identity Politics Reporting on Depok Muamalah Market

Abstract

─The press is one of the important pillars of democracy. News coverage by the press, both print media and online media as well as television has also colored the democratic process. Moreover, news related to the issue of identity. This article is about how Republika.co.id and Kompas.com frame the Depok Muamalah Market through the news. The news is related to the ideology adopted by the media. The media is an arena for ideological contestation. Data was collected through news documentation about the Depok Muamalah Market made by Republika.co.id and Kompas.com. Data were analyzed using Robert M. Entman's framing analysis. The results show that the framing in the coverage of the Depok Muamalah Market is related to the ideology of the press. Kompas.com tends to frame the coverage of the Depok Muamalah Market with a political identity, namely Indonesian nationalism. This is in line with the ideology adopted by Kompas.com, namely nationalism. Meanwhile, Republika.co.id in its coverage of the Depok Muamalah Market tends to use a political frame of religious identity, namely Islam, in line with Republika.co.id's ideology, namely Islam. Both of them still maintain the ideology that has been promoted since the establishment of the news media institution. In a democracy, the difference in framing that will create discourse and social reality is a natural thing and is an indication that democracy works because there is freedom of opinion in the public sphere.