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21 Technium Soc. Sci. J. 446 (2021)
Oligarchical Populism; the Analysis of President Joko Widodo's Political Communication

handle is hein.journals/techssj21 and id is 446 raw text is: f Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 21, 446-458, July, 2021 ISSN: 2668-7798 SOCIAL SCIENCES JOURNAL www.techniumscience.com Oligarchical Populism; The Analysis of President Joko Widodo's Political Communication Andi', Anang Sujoko2, Wawan Sobari' 12 3Department of Communication Science, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Brawijaya (UB), Malang, Indonesia andi.alhartik@gmail.coml, anangsujoko@ub.ac.id2, wawansobari@ub.ac.id3 Abstract. There are two perspectives toward the appearance of Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to a national political field. The first impression represents optimism towards political decentralization in Indonesia is by addressing Jokowi as a populist figure who can be a politician from a regional area to a capital city. Then, the second impression represents the oligarchy thesis, which is called the rise of Jokowi to a national political landscape because of oligarchies firmly rooted in Indonesia. This study aims to analyze Jokowi's political communication through populism and oligarchy framework, and the domination of both. This study uses the transformative critical paradigm with the critical discourse analysis (CDA) Teun. A van Dijk's model as method. The communication of Jokowi's politics related to corruption eradication, investment escalation, and freedom of expression are analyzed critically by using that method. The result reveals that Jokowi is under two political concepts which contrast to one another, namely populism and oligarchy. These concepts make Jokowi a weak figure who fights the oligarchy's will. Consequently, Jokowi is not sincerely fighting the KPK's weakening strategy, inconsistency in developing investment, and the non-sense statement about freedom of expression. In this case, Jokowi (a populist) is being in the oligarchs' co-optation or 'oligarchical populism'. Keywords. oligarchy, populism, political communication, oligarchical populism, Joko Widodo 1.1 Introduction There are two perspectives from researchers and scholars' parties related to the appearance of Joko Widodo, who is familiarly known as Jokowi, who joins the national political field. The first common impression of the Jokowi's appearance as a part of democratization through centered and region decentralization through a direct head regional election system. This view is correlated with Miezner (2015), Hamid (2014), and Mas'udi (2017 and 2019). The Jokowi's success of becoming a Major of Solo for two terms through the populist approach is considered a trigger for him to join the national political field until he finally becomes the number one person in Indonesia. The second view sees the appearance of Jokowi as part of the oligarchic intervention in political practice in Indonesia. This view considers that Jokowi's rise to the national political stage through the Regional Head Election (Pilkada) for the Jakarta Capital Special Region (DKI Jakarta) in 2012 and then the 2014 Presidential Election (Pilpres) because of oligarchs' 446

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