Human Sustainability Procedia (INSAN 2018 E-Proceeding) Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, 7 – 8 November 2018 9 THE REPRESENTATION OF MALAY WOMAN AS PORTRAYED IN H. SUHAIMI’S CIK PUAN Essy Syam 1 , (Mita Rosaliza 2* ) 1 Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Lancang Kuning Essysyam@unilak.ac.id 2 Sociology Department, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Riau mita.rosaliza@lecturer.unri.ac.id * Correspondence: mita.rosaliza@lecturer.unri.ac.id; Tel.: +62-8127-6074-13 ABSTRACT Malay society, a woman is placed to accept her weak or lower position than man’s. in some works and media, this representation is commonly found. Anyway, there are also found some works in Malay society which dismantle that stable universal representation. Malay woman is represented as smart, brave and strong opinion. On the surface, these representations label Malay woman with positive stereotypes, but clearly this text represents Malay woman negatively; Malay woman is represented as rude, sly and ambitious woman. So ,as a whole, Malay woman is represented negatively to describe that Malay woman who is in high position needs to be controlled because the woman in high position and the power tend to misuse the power and position. Keywords: Representation1; Potrayed2; Cik Puan3; H. Suhaimi4 INTRODUCTION A woman has her role, duty, responsibilities and position in certain society and culture. Different society and culture put the woman is treated by her society. One of common treatments is by presenting or representing woman with certain image for certain aim. In most cases, the representation of a woman is done to socialize woman’s position and her relation with man. In this case, there are found many woman representations which put woman lower than man in which woman is portrayed as more inferior than man. These representation create disadvantageous conditions for woman. ‘these representations of woman are created and socialized through various media with various versions in order the society agrees and believes that the representations describe the truth about woman. In the same time,. They are used to convince woman to accept the created representations. A representation creates meaning. It signifies something. For that reason, a representation has important and big role in creating meaning and certain signification. Similarly, a woman is represented with certain representation for certain purpose. In various representations of woman, most of them represent woman with less positive representations because the power in the man’s hand. By so, less positive representations of woman put man in advantageous position. Woman’s representations portray woman with certain labels and stereotype which put woman in weak position. . In Malay society, there are found some representations in various media as efforts to make woman accept her role as a man’s spouse, a Malay woman is conditioned to live up to that role. Thus, in Malay society, a woman is placed to accept her weak or lower position than man’s. in some works and media, this representation is commonly found.