The Power of the King of Java in the Indonesian Novel

Abstract

Indonesian literature reflects and represents the power narrated by the figures of the kings of Java. The narrative can be seen in the novels of Airlangga, Arok Dedes, and Minak Jinggo Sekar Kedaton. Research that uses socio-historical approach is analysed based on critical discourse analysis and interpreted using hermeneutics as a qualitative descriptive research method. The result of this study are in the form of descriptive and power conflicts of Javanese kings in the Airlangga, Arok Dedes, and Minak Jinggo Sekar Kedaton novels from the ideological, sociological, and cultural aspects which presented critically according to their review. Ideologically, sociologically and culturally presented in the novel Airlangga, Arok Dedes, and Minak Jinggo Sekar Kedston are nostalgic representations of history and heroism, Javanese human history which is full of intrigue, division, resistance, heroism, and struggle for rights, thrones, property, dignity and self-esteem.