TEKNOSASTIK ISSN 2656-6842 Volume 18 (2), 2020 Eklesia & Rido 120 e-mail: teknosastik@teknokrat.ac.id Representation of People with HIV/AIDS in The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe: A Critical Discourse Analysis Gigit Eklesia 1 , Akhyar Rido 2 gigitteknokrat@gmail.com 1 , akhyar_rido@teknokrat.ac.id 2 Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia Abstract This study aims to understand representational meanings from the transitivity choices used by news reports from The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe in reporting people with HIV-positive cases and exposing the underlying ideology behind the representation. Fairclough’s three-dimensional concept in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was applied in this study. The study also relied on Halliday’s systemic functional grammar, particularly in the transitivity analysis. Two selected articles were collected from The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe newspapers. The findings revealed that both news media dominantly report people with HIV/AIDS through material process, then followed by verbal process and relational process. Next, the study found that people with HIV/AIDS are represented as discriminated and threatened group in The Jakarta Post; meanwhile, they are represented as a mistreated group in Jakarta Globe. Last, the study found that The Jakarta Post attempts to construct that people with HIV/AIDS need to be more accepted and protected; meanwhile, Jakarta Globe attempts to construct an idea that people with HIV/AIDS need to be given more attention. To sum up, the combination of the both theories is substantially advantageous in the discourse to expose ideology. Keywords: representation, three-dimensional model, transitivity Introduction Discourse is described as structure and practices which represent human thought and social realities through particular collections of words and that construct certain meaning in the world (Fairclough, 2003). As one of the approaches in a discourse, critical discourse analysis is an analysis that sees how texts in social and political contexts are raised (Van Dijk, 2004 in Suprayogi & Pranoto, 2020). Hence, as a study in the linguistics field, linguistics features such as vocabulary, grammar, and text structure are imperative to be clearly analyzed. Since considered as discourse that widely spread in society, newspaper has strongly linked to power and ideology. Hence, the perspective of society is always influenced by information contained in newspaper (Pekkarinen, 2016 in Evayani & Rido, 2019). As many people depend on newspaper as a source of information, it has significant influence or impact on how individuals and society construct stigmas toward certain individuals, culture, illness and etc. Accordingly, it is considered imperative to demonstrate how stigmatized group such as people with HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Viruses/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in particular is represented in newspaper as Ren (2017) argues that mass media plays a significant role in shaping people's views of such illnesses and disorders, including HIV / AIDS. Despite the positive impact of the media in mitigating stigma, the literature has reported that the media could perpetuate HIV stigma in public discourse. People with HIV/AIDS are more likely get unfair treatment from the environment, avoided, rejected and expelled (Indonesian Social Change Organization, 2011). This stigma has longly and strongly been embedded in society which caused discrimination toward people living with HIV. Therefore, since reported as credible Indonesian English News and have the potentials to be globally read (Tarrant, 2008 in Utami, 2018), The Jakarta Post and brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by E-Journal Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia