IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/prv/pssjpv/1513.html

A critical discourse analysis of the toxic free nutritious meal in The Jakarta Post: Teun A. van Dijk’s framework

Author

Listed:
  • Atur Semartini

    (Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Nasional)

Abstract

Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) is a flagship program promoted by President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka during the 2024 General Election campaign. In its implementation, the program has faced numerous challenges, one of which is the high number of food poisoning cases among students after consuming the MBG menu. The media reported on the poisoning case, including The Jakarta Post. News stories do not reflect reality but construct it. This study investigates the discourse of toxic Free Nutritious Meals constructed by The Jakarta Post using Teun A. van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis approach. The data consisted of four online news articles obtained from thejakartapost.com , published at four different times. The news texts were analyzed through textual, social, and social cognition analyses, as proposed by Van Dijk. The findings reveal that The Jakarta Post constructs food poisoning cases as incidents that require serious attention from both the public and the government. However, at the same time, the newspaper also builds a discourse portraying the government as having responded to the cases promptly and the MBG program as generally well implemented.

Suggested Citation

  • Atur Semartini, 2026. "A critical discourse analysis of the toxic free nutritious meal in The Jakarta Post: Teun A. van Dijk’s framework," Priviet Social Sciences Journal, Privietlab Research Center, vol. 6(2), pages 413-425, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:prv:pssjpv:1513
    DOI: 10.55942/pssj.v6i2.1513
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journal.privietlab.org/download.php?id=12652
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.55942/pssj.v6i2.1513?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:prv:pssjpv:1513. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Mochammad Fahlevi (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journal.privietlab.org/index.php/PSSJ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.