Proceedings of the International Conference On Social Studies, Globalisation And Technology (ICSSGT 2019)

Half-Hearted Democracy: Critical Discourse Analysis of Public Service Cases in West Sumatra

Authors
Agustina, Muhammad Adek
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Available Online 4 August 2020.
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10.2991/assehr.k.200803.047How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Discourse Analysis, Democracy Index, West Sumatra
Abstract

The establishment of the Law on Public Services in Indonesia has opened the widest possible space to improve public participation in government. Public participation currently became an integral factor in the assessment of subsequent democratic practices. The evaluation of public participation in general can be reviewed from the reporting of mass media texts as one of the mediums to accommodate public aspirations. One form of public participation is supervision of the implementation of services and policies. The local mass media manuscript in West Sumatra was chosen as the material object of this study. By using Sawirman’s BREAK combined with Foucauldian discursive approach; it was found two competing discourses concerning the portrait of public services in Indonesia. Primary discourse contains complaints from the general public regarding the implementation of public services by the regional government of West Sumatra which is still congested in order to create an undemocratic atmosphere. Secondary discourse contains the demands and mandate of public service reform which the central government wants to realize as an effort towards a new brand democratic state. These two contrasting discourses move in opposition and conflict with each other which detain the democratic process in Indonesia.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference On Social Studies, Globalisation And Technology (ICSSGT 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
4 August 2020
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978-94-6252-999-1
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200803.047How to use a DOI?
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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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