Abstract :
Political scenario across the world demonstrates that women?s participation in
politics becomes a key source of competing discourses and struggles over power.
In Indonesia, women have been running for office as governors or regional heads
and some of them are the leader of a political party. This research will investigate
the image of Megawati as a female politician and a party leader figure in The
Jakarta Post online newspaper. This research applied critical discourse study
grounded on Fairclough?s theory and used qualitative method. The findings show
that in the textual dimension, first article applied indirect quotations and second
used direct quotations. As in the interpretation dimension, the objective of both
articles is similar that is to describe how and who Megawati is from the journalists?
perspective and lastly, in the social practice dimension, both articles presents the
image of Megawati through ideology and power. The first article shows the
ideology of Megawati as someone who bravely raised the idea of women?s
emancipation from her act in history and present era, while the second article has
the ideology to lure the critical thinking of society based on direct quotations that
are related to the acts of Megawati in the news article.
Keywords: critical discourse analysis, three-dimensional model, megawati
soekarnoputri, online newspaper