Protest Speech Act Strategy at the Women's Mach Jakarta 2018

This study examines the strategy of protest speech act on poster’s participants in the Women’s March Jakarta 2018. Since the Women’s March is defined as an intersectional movement, strategy is employed to adjust the protest speech act with the speech situation. Strategy is also needed to distinguish the Women’s March Jakarta with its origin, the Women’s March in the United States. All of the protest speech were collected in photo from direct observation. The analysis was started from classifying speech situation. It then included identification and explanation of the strategy of protest speech act. The identification encompassed elements that construct the strategy. It involved direct and indirect speech act, illocution, and sub-strategy which was comprised of the choice of words, the choice of pronouns, and syntactical structure. Each strategy resulted varied degree of strength of illocutionary force and thus its factors were explained. Through the discussion, it is understood that there are strategies which produce strong illocutionary force and eventually make a successful speech act of protest, and vice versa. Furthermore, this study also reveals the identity of the Women’s March Jakarta 2018 as a protest movement originated from the Unites States, and the influence of speaker’s culture in the strategy of protest speech act.