Konstruksi Pemikiran-Pemikiran Anies Baswedan dalam Menangani Pandemi Covid-19

Abstract

Everyone can have different thoughts in solving a problem, including Anies Baswedan (AB) when dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in DKI Jakarta. This study aims to reveal AB's thoughts on dealing with pandemics constructed by several online media. The research data are in the form of words, phrases, and sentence fragments which are indicated to contain AB's thoughts as the Governor of DKI Jakarta. The datawere collected from news about the handling of Covid-19 in several online media published in July–September 2021. The collected data were analyzed using a critical discourse analysis approach of the Fairclough model to reveal the language features used by the media in constructing AB thinking. The results of this study indicate that (1) AB has thoughts that tend to prioritize issues of safety and welfare for the citizens of DKI Jakarta; (2) these thoughts can be interpreted as a reflection that AB is the right person and is skilled in handling the Covid-19 pandemic in DKI Jakarta; (3) apart from that, AB's thoughts constructed by the media can also be interpreted as AB's attempt to build the impression of a 'pro-people governor'.

Keywords

• construction
• online media
• pandemic
• thinking