Research Article
The Representation of Cina on Indonesian Twitter
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.29-8-2019.2289133, author={A Fadly and Khaerunnisa Khaerunnisa and L S Faznur and W S Devi and R D Kartikasari and A Sumardi and Iswan Iswan}, title={ The Representation of Cina on Indonesian Twitter }, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Local Wisdom, INCOLWIS 2019, August 29-30, 2019, Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={INCOLWIS}, year={2019}, month={10}, keywords={representation critical discourse analysis appraisal system}, doi={10.4108/eai.29-8-2019.2289133} }- A Fadly
Khaerunnisa Khaerunnisa
L S Faznur
W S Devi
R D Kartikasari
A Sumardi
Iswan Iswan
Year: 2019
The Representation of Cina on Indonesian Twitter
INCOLWIS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.29-8-2019.2289133
Abstract
Ahead of the 2019 presidential and vice presidential election contestation, Chinese issues arose in Twitter and becomes discourse on it. Debate on this issue is particularly related to "Is it proper to ‘get a place’ and is compatible with Indonesian identity?" However, pragmatically the disagreement is not limited to dialectics that occurs in society, but is often associated with efforts to support or reject certain presidential candidates. Thus, representation on social media can be a "gateway" for acts of violence. For this reason, the representation needs to be revealed by using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and operating Appraisal System (AS). The data were collected from tweets and responds between September 23, 2018 until April 13, 2019. Based on the data revealed that term Cina was not used appropriately. It is sometimes used to generalize between China as a state and Chinese as a race and is used to control netizens as well.