Ideology inserted in Enforcing the Law Supremacy Applied by the Indonesian Presidents Analyzed using Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This paper aims to This research attempt to investigate ideological content inside the Indonesian presidents in ruling their government and the law-enforcement through the political speech texts. This paper focused on President Susilo Yudhoyono (henceforth, SBY) and President Jokowi Widodo (henceforth, Jokowi).  This study aimed at providing knowledge how the Indonesian presidents disseminated their ideologies in the law enforcement through their official political speech conducted in the Indonesian anniversary in front of the Indonesian parliaments. The research method adopted a descriptive qualitative research type. The research data obtained from two selected prominent speeches of SBY and of Jokowi delivered on the occasion of the Indonesian independent day anniversary based on the socio-political issues in the presidential speech texts 2014 and 2019. The topic selected was about the law enforcement in ruling the Indonesian government. The strong ideological content of SBY and Jokowi manifested in their political speeches. The findings shows that both presidents mostly highlighted about their government to emphasizes that they are good administrators to rule the state and also enforce the law, in contrast both presidents gave small portion in describing the law enforcement. The Presidents shows the government due to explain that their capability then the positive response from the audience needed to strengthen their power position. SBY gave more portion in the law enforcement that Jokowi did showed that SBY had more focus in this case, while the law enforcement was not their main priority of Jokowi in ruling his government.