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The Message of Plurality on The Chinese New Year News in Indonesia’s Cyber Media

Authors
Riris Loisa1, *, Roswita Oktavianti1
1Faculty of Communication Science, Universitas Tarumanagara, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: roswitao@fikom.untar.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Riris Loisa
Available Online 21 April 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.017How to use a DOI?
Keywords
chinese new year; cyber media; plurality; agenda setting
Abstract

After the Reformation, a number of mass media began to raise the issues related to the ethnic Chinese or Chinese Indonesian. It mainly discussed after the fourth Indonesian President, Abdurrahman Wahid, endorsed Confucianism an official religion of the Indonesian population. Celebrations of Chinese/Lunar New Year or widely known as Imlek were reported in a sizeable portion in a number of cyber media or online media in Indonesia. In this case, the media have routinely set up a setting agenda for the Chinese New Year celebrations in several cities in Indonesia. The cyber media use the term such as respect, harmony, togetherness and so forth, in every news. By content analysis method, it is dicovered the message of plurality by the usage of such words which was highlighted by the cyber media when reporting of the Imlek celebrated by the ethnic Chinese citizen. In 2021, the celebration was restricted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This research found that the news of Chinese New Year has not attractive yet for cyber media than the political news. This news is more likely to be published in the form of soft news than hard news. There is cyber media highlighted its news by using plurality terms. However, another cyber media preferred to reflect the plurality by opt its news source other than using such terms. In addition, the cyber media in this research have used ethnic Chinese citizen as news sources, academia, and government side. On top of that, there is cyber media which is more prominent by using a wide variety of news sources. Unfortunately, these cyber media are not using interfaith opinion leaders on the news of Chinese News Year in 2021.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 April 2022
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.017
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220404.017How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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