Abstract :
Purpose of this research is to explore about the meaning of ?Oom
Pasikom? cartoon to corruption case inside the development of Wisma Atlet SEA
Games at Jakabaring, Palembang, South Sumatera in opinion article edition
Saturday, February 11 2012.
The writer is using the following theories, newspaper as a mass
communication, cartoon picture as a communication proccess and social critic,
semiotic theory and the Triangle of Meaning theory by Charles Sanders Pierce.
The writer is using qualitative-descriptive method by using semiotic
approach in this research with the ?oom pasikom? cartoon as research object at
Saturday, February 11 2012 edition. Corpus of this research is ?Oom Pasikom?
cartoon at Kompas, Saturday, February 11 2012 edition about the case of Wisma
Atlet
Hypothesis in this research is, this cartoon criticize about corruption case
inside the development of Wisma Atlet SEA Games at Jakabaring, Palembang
which is dragging several names of elites in the Demokratic Party, one of them is
ex-general secretary vice of the democratic party, Angelina Sondakh.
Keywords : Charles Sanders Peirce?s semiotic theory, Oom Pasikom cartoon,
Wisma Atlet corruption case.