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This research aimed to determine the meaning of the songs belonged to Marjinal band, a punk band whose songs contain critics to the government. The songs that the reasearchers analyzed were Hukum Rimba and Buruh Tani. The researchers used the data taken from various digital platforms and analyzed the lyrics using Semiotic Theory from Ferdinand De Saussure. Furthermore, the results of the research from Hukum Rimba and Buruh Tani song implied that people who had money and power would be spared by the law. Meanwhile, the poor would always be oppressed by the law.Keywords: critics, government, lyrics, money, power

For some people, Indonesia during colonial period is often imagined as a beautiful, quiet, peaceful, and harmonious country. Such imagination, for example, resides in the concept of Mooi Indie paintings which emerged out of Indonesian history during the Dutch colonial period. However, for other people, such representations were opposed because they were merely romanticized representation by painters patronized by the Dutch colonials who wanted to romanticize the memory of their past in East Indies. In this article, we discussed how the concept of Mooi Indie appears in certain Indonesian landscape paintings, how the antagonism comes into sight, and how its politicality works.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer's works are highly distinguished for their strong realist characteristic and profound analysis of interactions among pre- and post- colonial human beings and their place in society. One of the works that portray such characteristics is "Houseboy + Maidâ€, the first story in Toer's collection Tales from Djakarta: Caricatures of Circumstances and Their Human Beings. In this research, post-colonialism and contrapuntal reading proposed by Edward Said are used as methods to interpret a literary work whose narration is about two characters who live in post-colonial Indonesia, or rather post-revolutionary Indonesia. Their unfixed identities which are interrelated through the changing event of the plot indicates that their very destiny cannot be separated from the "politicality, sociality, and historicality†of much bigger entities.

Chant is a supportive song that is usually shown to idols. Chants are performed by fans as a form of love and support for their idols. Chants usually contain words of encouragement and support and that make the enthusiastic in competition. This study aimed to analyze the chants from one of the Indonesian soccer teams, namely PERSIJA JAKARTA (Persatuan Sepak bola Indonesia Jakarta). The chants that the researchers used are Kesurupan, Majulah Persija, and Menerjang Badai. In order to help the researchers in doing the analysis, Fandom Theory is used in this study to elaborate the lyrics of those three chants. As the result, those three chants do not only contain words of encouragement but also moral messages and even critics towards government.