Dismantling the Ideology about News of Expatriate Workers towards the 2019 Presidential Election in Indonesia (Study Critical Discourse Analysis Teun A. Van Dijk on Online Media RMOL.co and Tempo.co)

Expatriate Workers coverage has become an interesting commodity and is closely related to the political situation ahead of the presidential elections in Indonesia. Nowadays the media is not only a tool to convey information but also as a tool to master the political, economic and ideological systems. The purpose of this study is to uncover the meaning of the news of the Regulation of the President of Foreign Workers and the practice of global capitalist ideology through news in the online media RMOL.id and Tempo.co from April to May 2018. The methodology used in this study is a critical paradigm through critical analysis of Teun A. Van Dijk. The unit of analysis of this research is the news about the Regulation of the President of Foreign Workers produced by the online media RMOL.id and Tempo.co during April to May 2018. The results of this study indicate that there are ideological, political, economic, and other interests carried out by RMOL.id, and the same thing was done by Tempo.co which has the same ideological alignments with the government, and tends to be more balanced in terms of news to maintain its relationship with the government. This Expatriate Workers News also contains other ideologies that reinforce the legality of investors in Indonesia, alignments with the Chinese industry, management legality, product legality, competency standard or profession, benefit the government and foreign investors.