Analysis of the Critical Discourse of the Fairclough Model as Alternative Legal Case Analysis Approaches Allegation of Blasphemy

Abstract

With the rapid development of social media applications today, especially the YouTube application, more and more YouTubers are known by the wider community.  One of them is youtuber LM. One of LM's video content "Eating Pork Crunch" (2023) went viral so that it was entangled in a blasphemy law case under Article 28 paragraph 2 of the ITE Law. To find out the content of the youtube video has the potential for blasphemy or cannot be analyzed by qualitative description method with Fairclough's model critical discourse analysis analysis. The critical discourse analysis of Fairclough's model is divided into three dimensions, the micro dimension, the meso dimension, and the macro dimension. The stages of data analysis are (1) stages of providing data and (2) stages of data analysis. The results of critical discourse analysis are further associated with forensic linguistics. The results of the analysis are to determine whether the content of LM's youtube video has the potential for blasphemy. The results of the analysis showed that the analysis of LM's video content "Eating Pork Crunch" (2023) was identified as having the potential for blasphemy.