Discourse Analysis of Domestic Violence (DV) on Kompas Daily News (Sara Mills Model)

Domestic Violence (DV) often occurs everywhere so that this invites the attention of many media and often becomes the main news in the headline. Kompas Daily Media is one of the media that often highlights various cases, both cases that come from a number of homeland figures, celebrities and ordinary people. In many cases, men dominate domestic violence cases against women. This research focuses on the discourse of domestic violence in the media, 1) how the mass media displays the representation of women in the text, and 2) describes how the news text performs the strategy of appearing victims of domestic violence in media coverage. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method using a critical discourse analytic approach to the news text entitled “Detik-detik Suami Tendang dan Bacok Istrinya Saat Masak, Pelaku Ditangkap” written in the Kompas digital newspaper on May 09, 2021, 14:36 WIB. The results showed that the author displays that Kompas.com has not made women a priority in the news text. Kompas.com news writers position women in the text as objects and there is a tendency for writers to place themselves in a male perspective. The news writer presents himself as a storytelling subject who represents the voice of the victim in the domestic violence case. Cultural codes are codes that can be used by readers to understand values, especially those related to the agreement of the readers