Ahok in Virtual News

• Main Author: Novian Anata Putra
• Format: Article
• Language: Indonesian
• Published: Balai Pengkajian dan Pengembangan Komunikasi dan Informatika (BPPKI) 2015-12-01
• Series: Jurnal Penelitian Komunikasi
• Subjects: analisis isi; berita online; VOA-Islam
• Online Access: http://bppkibandung.id/index.php/jpk/article/view/43

Every society is flooded by Information in the Internet era. News sites as one of the sources of information are now numerous. However, do these bits of information worth to be trusted fully? Through quantitative content analysis, the researcher tried to examine one of the news sites based on religion (Islamic hardliners), VOA-Islam, in reporting Basuki Tjahaja Purnama a.k.a Ahok, which incidentally is a non-Muslim Chinese descent. Using Jurgen Westerstahl’s objectivity approach (1983), found the fact that the news presented by VOA-Islam does not contain elements of balance, even most of it shows a negative tendency, cornered Ahok as a central figure in DKI Jakarta. In fact, from the dimensions of relevance, the percentage of news from VOA-Islam, which has a significant effect to the activity of community life and proximity to the topic of the public, are quite high. In addition to the large amount of news that contains racial issues, it becomes worrisome because it could lead to the disintegration of the nation.