The Position of Women in Rape News Online Media Detik.Com

Abstract

This study aims to describe the position of women in the news of sexual violence in the form of rape in the online media Detik.com. this research is descriptive qualitative research. The source of data in this study is the news text in the online media Detik.com on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 which contains news about sexual violence, in the form of rape. Data collection techniques in the form of documentation. The documents collected are in the form of news of sexual violence and rape that occurred in January 2021 on the online media portal Detik.com. The data collection technique used is that the researcher is directly involved in the data collection process. Data analysis was carried out using Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis theory. Based on the results and discussion of the research, it was concluded that news of sexual violence in the form of rape against women in the form of rape cases in the online news media Detik.com published on January 26, 2021 with the news text title "Wife in West Sumatra Help Husband Rape Women for Fear of Divorce" with using Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis theory, constructing the position of women as subjects, not objects. The object in the online news media Detik.com is the perpetrator who committed the act of rape. However, in its presentation, women are still marginalized as weak, helpless, afraid of threats, so they do not dare to fight against rapists or objects. The online news media Detik.com positions the reader as the subject of ideology and brings the reader to the position of the narrator or subject, so that the reader accepts the news as a fact and reality.