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936 JTUS, Vol. 01, No. 11 December 2023
applications, the applications that are often used in Indonesia are whatsapp, instagram, facebook,
tik tok, Instagram, twiter and FB messenger. However, the use of youtube is also not inferior in
number.
With the rapid development of social media applications today, especially the YouTube
application, more and more YouTubers are known to the wider community, such as artists known
through television. These YouTubers are free to upload content on their yuotube channels. This
freedom causes the uploaded content to smell of SARA. This was confirmed by Dedy Permadi
(2021) that since 2018, Kominfo has handled 3,640 hate speeches based on ethnicity, religion,
race, and anatrgolongan (SARA) in the digital space (Gurning, 2023). Content containing SARA,
including video content that has allegations of blasphemy. Video content like this will usually go
viral. This is what causes public unrest because it can divide public opinion or even lead to other
physical actions.
The content of youtube videos that have alleged blasphemy that has gone viral lately is the
content of YouTuber Lina Mukherjee (hereinafter abbreviated as LM). Reporting from kompas.com
(2023), on March 9, 2023, LM uploaded the content "Eating Pork Crunch" (2023). The content has
been watched 9.8 million times (youtube account @LinaMukherjee) so Lina Mukherjee was
charged with blasphemy law cases Article 28 paragraph 2 Juncto Article 45 paragraph 2 of the
ITE Law and Article 156 letter a of the Criminal Code (jawapos.com, 2023).
Based on this explanation, to find out whether LM's youtube video content contains
allegations of blasphemy as alleged or not, it can be proven by critical discourse analysis. Critical
discourse analysis (AWK) is a discourse analysis research that mainly studies the ways in which
abuse of social power and inequality is imposed, reproduced, legitimized, and countered by texts
and talks in social and political contexts (Van Dijk, 2015). In the context of this study, analyzing
yotubue LM video content has the potential for blasphemy or not. The critical discourse analysis
used is Fairclough's model. Fairclough's critical discourse analysis model is considered important
to explore meaning based on uploads, the background of uploads, and consider the socio-cultural
elements of the community at the time the upload was made (Kusno et al., 2022).
In addition, previous research using Fairclough's model of critical discourse analysis has
been widely conducted. First research (Asghar, 2021; Asidiky & Puspa, 2020; Karouw et al., 2019;
Kusno et al., 2022). These studies have the same theoretical approach in expressing meaning to
be more comprehensive, namely using the Fairclough model critical discourse analysis approach.
Second, the News of Islamic Blasphemy on the Website of Kompas and Republika A Critical
Discourse Analysis research conducted by (Suganda et al., 2018). This study has similarities with
this study, namely analyzing allegations of blasphemy committed by Basuki Tjahaja Purnama.
Third, Hoax Text Analysis Around Bank Information: Language study perspective of critical
discourse analysis and forensic linguistics (Mulkan & Harmonis, 2017). This research has
similarities with this study, which uses the AWK approach and forensic linguistics to investigate
hoax cases. In the context of this study, it is using Fairclough's AWK model approach and forensic