A hybrid analysis of critical discourse analysis and systemic functional language to unmask ideological stance inside President Joko Widodo’s political speech text

Abstract

President Joko Widodo is a phenomenon president because he is the one and only president who comes from a lower level class as compared to the other presidents who comes from Indonesia’s elite, especially the Javanese elite. Of the importance of the Indonesian people, every Indonesian President is concerned with the people’s interests to gain the people’s sympathy. Hence, this study unentangles how Jokowi disseminated his ideology to influence the Indonesian people through his political speech text. Accordingly, this study aims to investigate Jokowi’s ideological stance inside his political speech text. This study also identifies why Jokowi prioritizes Indonesia’s people as the main concern in his program. This study integrated interpretivism as the underlying paradigm. Meanwhile, case study research design was applied as this study centered on Jokowi’s speeches as Indonesian President. Data were collected from the first official speech text of President Jokowi delivered on August 16, 2015. This paper combined Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly the Appraisal System’s judgmental analysis. The paper formed Judgement as a sub-type of the attitudinal classification rather than the other two, Affect and Appreciation. The Judgmental categories dominated by the sub-type of Capacity have exceeded other judgmental subtypes. Jokowi mostly evaluated Indonesia’s people using the positive Capacity to show that the People of Indonesia the capable people to overcome their problems. The reason behind Indonesia’s people’s political inclination is that Jokowi is supported by the people-based political party, Struggle-Indonesian Democratic Party (PDIP). The analysis of this study illustrates the importance of a leader’s ideological stance in facing and communicating with the people. This is because the stance allows Jokowi to inspire and empower the Indonesian people with his speeches