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Nowadays, environmental problems are important issues that require people to respond in the right ways to prevent worse disasters. For that reason, environmental literacy discourse is an important issue to be built informal and non-formal education and in the public sphere. Environmentally literate individuals have the knowledge and skills required to analyze the environmental problems so that they can behave pro-environmentally. This paper has a purpose to know how the local young people in Trenggalek (a rural district in the southern coastal area of East Java) develop environmental literacy through a local portal of "Nggalek.co." The Trenggalek-based portal "Nggalek.co" is intended as the means for communicating their localities to their community and the world. This paper will explore the environmental literacy discourse presented in the portal by using Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough. This analysis applied three levels of analysis, micro, meso, and macro. The study shows that environmental literacy is a somehow essential issue in this portal, especially when it is related to governmental policy in environmental problems. The awareness of the environmental problems shows a high level, especially because it is directly related to people's daily life, that is when there is "natural" disaster people got direct impact.

The discourse of nationalism is present not only in classic, or 'high' literature, but also in products of popular literature such as crime fiction, which provides a 'deep look' at the culture of everyday life. This paper addresses one popular work of Indonesian crime fiction, Es Ito's Negara Kelima (The Fifth State, 2005). Ito, popularly known as an Indonesian writer of crime fiction, is interesting as his work blends historical ingredients and legends into its crime plots. The historical insight embedded in the story-telling tradition, combined with the concept of the ideal state and contemporary issue of terrorism, makes his crime fiction worthy of attention. This paper focuses on the discourse of nationalism, its presentation in the novel through characters' interactions and perspectives in dealing with the conflict they face. It will do so using Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, which highlight analysis at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. At the micro level, it deals with linguistic devices; at the macro level, it examines the social political context; and at the mezzo level it deals with discursive analysis, bridging the micro and macro, the consumption and production of the text. Negara Kelima tells of the murders of high school girls as well as the investigation into a radical group. This investigation examines the mystery of the first state, second state, third state, fourth state, and fifth state, and unravelling this mystery will lead to understanding the group's goals and agenda. This paper focuses on how the discourse of nationalism is constructed within the novel. It reveals that the discourse of nationalism is highlighted through the perspective of the young policeman Timur Mangkuto and the radical group members. Nationalism, the sense of being united in one nation, emerges in this novel through the characters' dynamic relationships. In the main character's The discourse of nationalism is present not only in classic, or 'high' literature, but also in products of popular literature such ...

Media plays important role in reshaping political constellation and identity in the post Indonesian reform era. One major event that attracted national and international media coverage in 2016 was "Aksi Bela Islam", which was held to resist against Basuki Tjahja Purnama (Ahok) nomination as a candidate of Jakarta governor. This paper will discuss this event that occurred on 14 October 2016 and on subsequent demonstration that followed in November and December 2016. This "Aksi Bela Islam" is important to understand the trend and shift of identity politics of contemporary Islam and its relation to the idea of haria law application in Jakarta proposed by Ahok's contenders and citizenship (pribumi vs non-pribumi). This research focuses on how the discourse of "Bela Islam" (Defending Islam) is represented in online (national and international-based) news portal. It will explore four online news portal, two are national online news portal, namely Kompas and Republika and two others represent international online news portal, namely al Jazeera and BBC. This study shows that the politics of identity of Islamic populism is on the rise in Indonesian context through many actions under the flag of "Bela Islam" the year before the election and the issue of "pribumi vs non-pribumi" is also rising that shape the political space of contemporary Indonesia.

This study observes the "Hijabers Community" a community that uses hijab as the starting point to be together, set up a community and run social activities and business. Hijabers Community is set up by a group of middle-class urban Muslim women in Indonesia in responding modernity and changes through activities ranging from religious teaching, talk show, hijab clinic, beauty class, bazaar and fashion show at local, national and international level. This study focuses on the "Muslim Women Identity in the Consumer Society; Critical Discourse Analysis on Hijabers Community" with the data from a blog "Hijabers Community" and its other social medias (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube). It aims at understanding the identity of muslim women constructed by the Hijabers Community, and the Islamic discourse communicated through the sites. To reach this objective, the study applies Van Dijk's critical discourse analysis in which it is based on three level of analysis: micro level, meso level, and macro level. In micro level the analysis deals with the language phenomena, such as a specific syntax or lexicon, or particular words used and means in the discourse, the meso level deals with the production and consumption of the text. It talks much on the reference of a particular discourse consumed or produced by a particular people. In the macro level, the analysis goes to the social political context of a certain issue.

ABSTRAK "In Country Program†merupakan program kerjasama antara Deakin University Australia dan UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang yang telah dilakukan sejak tahun 2008. Dalam program ini, mahasiswa jurusan Bahasa Indonesia dari Deakin University Australia dikirim ke UIN Malang untuk mengikuti mata kuliah bahasa Indonesia dan Budaya Indonesia, sekaligus merasakan pengalaman hidup di tengah masyarakat Indonesia. Penelitian ini mengeksplorasi secara deskripsif kualitatif program pengenalan budaya Indonesia kepada mahasiswa asing dan dampaknya. Kegiatan pengenalan budaya ini dilakukan selama 40 hari dan mahasiswa mengikuti program budaya dalam berbagai bentuk aktivitas. Dari analisis yang dilakukan dalam program ini disimpulkan bahwa kegiatan "In Country Program†ini mempunyai dampak secara social, ekonomi, politik dan budaya yang positif bagi pihak mahasiswa Deakin Australian dan bagi mahasiswa UIN Malang, secara khusus, dan bagi masyarakat  Malang dan sekitarnya pada umumnya. Dengan meningkatkan kerjasama dan memperbaiki kualitas program kebudayaan seperti ini, akan menjadikannya selain sebagai soft power diplomacy, juga menjadi strategi meningkatkan daya saing daerah di bidang pendidikan. Kata Kunci: "In Country Programâ€, budaya Indonesia , pendidikan  ABSTRACT "In Country Program†is a program of learning Indonesian language and culture. This program is conducted by Deakin University Australia in cooperation with UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. It has been conducted since 2008. In this program, students of Deakin University Australia were sent to UIN Malang to take Bahasa Indonesia course and Cultural course. This program is aimed of giving the students real experience of living among Indonesian people. Through descriptive qualitative method the research explores the In Country Program and its impact towards the students and other stakeholders. The language and cultural activities of this program is done for 40 days. From the analysis of this program it can be concluded that the "In ...