The News Media Representation of Acts of Mass Violence in Indonesia

Introduction

During the last two years, the comparisons are based on the media representation by their alignments and newspaper format. This chapter enumerates the commonalities and differences between UK and Indonesia media at the time of dealing with mass violence news. Putting both traditions in dialogue will help to understand the outcomes. This paper involves an analysis of a qualitative media presentation. The finding presented in this paper shows that in general, there are different ways in which the Indonesian press represents this mass violence from 2018 to 2019. The term 'mass violence' is used in this paper to describe the violence among state and militant groups to capture the interest of the audience. Within the context of mass violence, the image of certain countries (i.e. the Indonesia region) might be influenced by the presentation of the news media. (Walter & Snyder, 1999). For example, only the Republika News adopts a completely different presentation strategy for reporting. Other Indonesian Press events harmonize with the British media by echoing and strengthening the liberalist perspective. This media echo produces their agreement to maintenance and intimate presentation. Also, there are differences in the type of presentation used by the Indonesian press between the beginning of the election, towards the end Election period, and post-election. The year 2019 can be considered as a change moment. This paper supports the way in which the media tries to influence the readers or capitalizes (benefits) by their reporting as well as contributes to the study of the media presentation in the Eastern media representation of Mass violence (Herman & Chomsky, 1988).