Title: DISCOURSE ON RADICALISM IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIA
Abstract: Radicalism in contemporary Indonesia is potential to question whether democracy adopted by the nation could eradicate intolerance that threatens pluralism. Considering that recent radical voices in Indonesia have gained public support this paper aims at discussing the discourse on radicalism in the nation today. The data of the study are texts on radicalism collected from social media. The analysis of the data is based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective. The result of the study suggests that the meanings of the texts on radicalism in contemporary Indonesia are influenced by the context of situation and the context of culture as well as the ideology stance behind the texts.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-12-31
Language: en
Type: article
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