MEDIA AND WOMAN : PICTURING MEDIA CONSTRUCTION TOWARDS WOMAN POLITICAL PARTISIPATION IN POST REFORMATION AGE IN INDONESIA

摘要

This research aims to extricate the construction of Kompas toward news coverage of woman legislative candidate in Legislative Election 2009. Albeit reformation has been occurred since 12 years ago, the relation of woman and politic is still clashed and debated in economic, politic, social, culture and religion contexts. Woman often placed as marginalized human in politic. The terms of ‘public domain’ and ‘private domain’ are a dichotomy which explain role of man and woman in society. Woman is hitherto only involved in internal household. Socio culturally, woman is positioned as inferior party, in famous Javanese philosophy it is said that woman is confined as ‘konco wingking’ (friend in kitchen). Since Independen day of Indonesia in 1945, the number of woman in legislative board has not been representative compared with the total woman population in Indonesia. Based on the phenomena, this research is proposed to examine central issues which reported by Kompas consistently. As a media industry, Kompas Daily Newspaper is intentionally selected as the research subject caught with the news coverage which nationally based and dominate circulation. In sociocultural area, Kompas often offer ideas and discourse which then contribute an influence to society. This research will simultaneously disclose central issues which reported by Kompas consistently in woman legislative candidate news coverage in legislative election 2009. The method used in this research is framing method. Framing devices which will be applied is Gamson and Modigliani’s which consists of framing devices and reasoning devices. Framing devices is caught directly to central issues which stressed in a news. This devices is simbolized with words using, sentences using, graphic or picture, and certain metaphor. Reasoning devices is regarded cohesion and coherence of media text which refer to certain notion so message can be received as truth, natural, and real. udududKeywords: framing, Kompas, woman political participation, legislative election 2009udududud