The Investigation of Tempo Weekly News Magazine in the Corruption Case of the Megaproject Hambalang Sport Facilities

Authors

  • Mochtar Touwe
  • M. Iqbal Sultan

Keywords:

Investigation, discourse, corruption, reformation

Abstract

After the political reformation, the Tempo Weekly News Magazine published investigation report regarding corruption case of the Megaproject Hambalang Sport Facilities. The aim of the research was to find out how Tempo Weekly News Magazine scheduled and expressed the corruption case of Megaproject of Hambalang Sport Facilities, so it encouraged the formation of public opinion. The data were obtained by making investigation on archives about articles issued in March and December 2012 and July 2013. The data were analyzed using discourse analysis technique with Teun A. van Dijk approach who divided text into discourse structure and elements. The results of the research indicate that Anas Urbaningrum, Andi Alfian Mallarangeng, Deddy Kusnidar, Machfud Suroso, Teuku Bagus Muhammad Noor, and Wafid Muharam very clearly involve in corruption case of megaproject of Hambalang Sport Facilities as it is contained in three editions of Tempo magazine. The text is not derived from a reality as what it is but from a reality of an event. It is constructed by those who are behind the text discourse. This similarly happens to Hambalang case. Corruption case in Hambalang is not natural, but it is planned and systematically done by certain parties.

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Published

2015-03-03

How to Cite

Touwe, M., & Sultan, M. I. (2015). The Investigation of Tempo Weekly News Magazine in the Corruption Case of the Megaproject Hambalang Sport Facilities. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 20(2), 233–239. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/3369

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