Aceh Women in Mass Media (Analysis Of Norman Critical Facts Fairclough On Violence News In Merdeka.Com Site)

This research was a study conducted on news text published in Merdeka.com. Focusing on the news of violence experienced by women in Aceh. This study aimed to describe the way Merdeka.com discoursing Acehnese women who subjected to violence, as well as uncover the ideology held by Merdeka.com as anational media that wasn’t related to regional regulations in Aceh. Analysis was done by Critical paradigm and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model of Norman Fairclough. Cultural Radical Feminism and Muted Group Theory were used to explain the muting process over Acehnese women in news on common violence which couldn’t be regarded as ordinary violence. This study showed that there wasn’t any policy decisiveness in Merdeka.com which influenced by patriarchal ideology and Islamic law regulations through a men’s way of thinking and acting in the news writing on women who subjected to violence. Although there were defenses from the National Commission for Women, the patriarchal concept was still more prominent which is similarly carried by the local media in Aceh. Finally, this study is expected to be a reference for Merdeka.com in writing news about women to be more impartial and gender conscious. As well as the Aceh government can implement the Islamic law which does not discriminate the women.