Jokowi’s Dynasty Political Issues in Online News

Abstract

The issue of dynastic politics emerged during the simultaneous regional head elections in 2020. Many candidates for regional heads were political relatives. This study aims to describe how the media Tempo.co and Republika.co.id framed the political issues of the President Jokowi dynasty towards the participation of Gibran and Bobby in the 2020 regional head election. The framing model used in this research was the Zhongdan Pan and M. Kosicki model, which focuses on the framing of news narratives in the mass media. This research employed a qualitative method by analyzing three news published in the Tempo.co media and three news items in the Republika.co.id media, which were analyzed with four elements of framing as an analytical tool, namely script, syntactic, thematic, and rhetorical elements. The results of the research indicate that the inequality in the use of news sources has an impact on the use of the news dominance space. There were differences in the construction of the reality of the dynastic political issue, with Tempo.co constructing the reality of the President Jokowi dynasty's political issue as an extraordinary issue and violating political ethics. Meanwhile, the Republika.co.id framed it as a common and legitimate issue in a democratic country. Based on the findings of this research, it is possible to conclude that the views of the political ethics of the mass media differed, resulting in differences in the delivery of information by the media that allow for an imbalance in the information received by the public.