Representation of Eastern Indonesian Stereotype on Television Program (Semiotic Analysis of Charles Sanders Peirce in Waktu Indonesia Timur Television Program)

Waktu Indonesia Timur Program is the latest comedy variety show on NET TV by presenting authentic Eastern Indonesian comics as talented talents. the host brought funny content to entertain the audience for its television show. The aim of this study was to reveal the stereotypical representation of Indonesia in Waktu Indonesia Timur program with Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic analysis. This research analysed the signs that appeared in Waktu Indonesia Timur program through Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics and find out the representation of stereotypes of the program. The object of this research is eight videos of Waktu Indonesia Timur, and subject of this research are visual and dialogue delivered in the East Indonesian dialect. The results of this research are two stereotype that represent the eastern of Indonesia, there are first, stereotype of Papuan Humor Mop which contains Voicing the backwardness of Eastern Indonesia and Mocking fellow the easterners and stereotype of culture which include the use of dialect of Papuan Malay dialect, physical differences of the eastern and the eastern legacy