Kes Nirmala Bonat dalam berita akhbar Utusan Malaysia dan waspada: satu analisis pembingkaian
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Date
2011
Authors
Ichwan Butsi, Febry
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Abstract
Nowadays, many Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (TKI) who had been working officially in
Malaysia gained their succeses and lived comfortable life, although there are some of
them are unfortunate for example, some TKI being tortured, badly threatened and
experienced injustice while working here. Most of the cases happened to the maids in
domestic houses. One of the biggest case being reported in media was the case of
Nirmala Bonat' s torture while working for Yim Pek Ha at her house. Nirmala Bonat
was a house maid from Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia who escaped from
her employer's house on May 2004 after being tortured to most part of her body. The
case caused public attention not only in Malaysia or Indonesia and but also
internationally. Consequently Yim Pek Ha was sent to jail for 18 consecutive years
in 2008 after 4 years trials. Thus, research problem is based on constructivism
paradigm particulary news report. News in contructivism is seen as a different fact
rather than the real meaning (empirical fact). This research is exploring of how the
media revealed the reality in Nirmala Bonat' s case in the newspapers. The research
investigated two newspapers, that was Waspada from Indonesia and Utusan
Malaysia from Malaysia. The newspapers chosed by researcher based particulary on
their news content and their circulation and readership. This research used
triangulation method based Norman Fairclough's methodology, with two levels of
research: news text and newsroom. For the news text level, researcher applied
quantitative content analysis (content analysis) and framing analysis (constructivist).
For the newsroom level, researcher applied in depth interview method with the
newspaper editors. The result of this research showed that news construction of
Nirmala Bonat's case in Waspada or Utusan Malaysia. Both newspapers saw
Nirmala Bonat as a victim and should be defended for justice. Yim Pek Ha seemed
guilty and deserved punishment. News construction pattern developed by both
newspapers was slightly different, Utusan Malaysia shows more legal case, while
Waspada wrote more nasionalist expression for their reader. Newspapers ideology
immediately did not become first consideration when Utusan Malaysia covered
Nirmala Bonat's case. Infact the coverage even did not apply Ketuanan Melayu's
ideology and Perlembagaan in their news, even though Nirmala Bonat is a nonMalay
she is a Christian and Indonesian citizen. They supported her to obtain justice
for Yim Pek Ha's abuse. While Waspada seems to support humanity principle,
however Nirmala altough she is Indonesian citizen and Christian, nonetheless
principle of humanity was the main expression in Waspada 's news coverage.
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Nirmala Bonat , Analisis pembingkaian