Pattern of the Sympathy Abuse to Counter Hegemony on Indonesian Positive Law Realized In Ideology

Abstract

---This study takes three law cases in Indonesia conflicting the powerful and the powerless as the subject of the study. In those cases all the suspects attempted to do counter hegemony to set them free. They employed sympathy as their counter-hegemonic device. The study is intended to determine the pattern of the abuse of sympathy to counter hegemony on Indonesian positive law which is realized in ideology. The study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The finding shows that to gain public sympathy they employ Legitimation type 1, Legitimation type 2, Trope, Fragmentation, Euphemization, Unification, and Dissimulation. Further analysis reveals that those forms of ideology form the pattern of emphasizing negative things about the opposing party, emphasizing positive things about themselves, emphasizing negative thing about themselves, de-emphasizing negative things about themselves, de-emphasizing positive things about them and de-emphasizing positive thing about the ones.