A CRITICAL DISCROUSE ANALYSIS ON AUSTRALIA BROADCASTING COMPANY ON WEST PAPUA INCIDENT IN 2019
This research observes about press release of Australia Broadcasting Company on Papua incident in 2019 using Van Leeuwen critical paradigm approach to analyse the discourse. This research examines the structure of press release of ABC on Papuan incident in 2019 to acknowledge how the social actor is being represented and what is the ideology of Australia Broadcasting Company. The research is implying Theo van Leeuwen Critical Discourse Analysis theory that has two grand theory there are exclusion and inclusion. The methodology that is applied in this research is qualitative-descriptive method. The researcher also implementing Theo van Leeuwen critical approach to this research to gives better acknowledgement about how linguistic features comes from Critical Discourse Analysis. The researcher collects data from downloading the press release through ABC’s website. The result is that Australia Broadcasting Company inconsistently displaying the social actor that emerge from the discourse through the Papua incident in 2019. The researcher also found that the ideology of Australia Broadcasting Company is opportunist because of their inconsistent attitude on displaying the social actor. Keywords: Australia Broadcasting Company, Papua incident in 2019, van Leeuwen Critical Paradigm, social actors, ideology