SIKAP MEDIA ASING DALAM MENYOROTI KASUS PENISTAAN AGAMA AHOK (Foreign Media Attitude to Highlight Ahok’s Blasphemy Case)

Abstract

In 2017, Ahok's Blasphemy Case (ABC) got big attention from foreign mass media. Then, how did the foreign mass media take a position broadcasting it? It is a qualitative descriptive study that aims to describe the attitude and its object of foreign mass media's ABC news texts. The study used lexis and phrases that reflecting attitude as data. The data were collected from ABC Indonesian news texts from three foreign mass media of Deutsche Welle, BBC, and VOA. The data were analyzed with the appraisal approach to finding out their attitude toward ABC. The study result showed that there were three kinds of attitudes: positive and negative affects, judgements, and appreciations. The positive affects were to evaluate participants' attitudes who want to create comfort conditions. The negative affects implied fear of ABC as the source of stress and anxiety for Indonesian. Then, the positive personal judgements showed the need for a safe and fair state for ABC and the negative personal judgements showed the stressful aspect. The positive moral judgements were about Ahok's cooperative attitudes. The negative moral judgements were directed to the action of attacking certain people or ideologies. Then, the appreciations focused on evaluating things, people who supported a conducive situation. The negative appreciations were associated with ABC that create chaos situation. However, the domination of positive attitudes were about ABC showed support to finish ABC fairly and peacefully.