Ideological Conflicts in a Collection of Short Stories of Kera Di Kepala (A Monkey on the Head) by Soeprijadi Tomodihardjo: A Study of Michel Foucault's Critical Discourse Analysis

The novelty of this research is the construction of CDA Foucault's theory on a collection of short stories of Kera Di Kepala (A Monkey On The Head) by Soeprijadi Tomodihardjo (ST) (2006). The contribution of this research strengthens the concept of ideological contestation in CDA theory.The purpose of this research is to find a counter ideology against the dominant ideology in the New Order and Reformation Order in Indonesian exil literature. The theory used by CDA Michel Foucault. Research approach of constructionist Jorgensen and Phillips (2002). The data source for the collection of short stories of Kera Di Kepala (A Monkey On The Head) by ST. Technique of collecting data is critical reading, recording, coding data. CDA of Foucault's perspective data analysis technique follows Alba-Juez's (2009) formula, namely: (1) topic selection, (2) data deepening, (3) theme identification, (4) searching for absent/hidden discourse elements, (5) search for meaning relations between elements of discourse, and (6) contextualization of discourse elements in the power-knowledge network. Findings: ideology of democracy-socialist-humanism as a counter ideology for the exile authors of 1965 which was fought with liberal-democracy ideology as the dominant ideology of the New Order and Reformation-Order governments in Indonesia. Keywords: conflict, ideology, critical discourse analysis, humanism-socialist DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-22-07 Publication date: November 30th 202