Framing Analysis on Online Media of News Coverage of Protests Against Indonesia's Omnibus Law on Job Creation Act

The ratification of the Omnibus Law on Job Creation Act in Indonesian House of Representatives plenary session sparked a threeday wave of protests across the country. Numerous cities witnessed massive demonstrations by workers, students, and civil society activists from various organizations. As the Omnibus Law on the Job Creation Act is considered to have a negative impact on workers or laborers, this ratification was rejected by various segments of society. This phenomenon has been widely reported by news outlets, including heavy coverage in online media such as Kumparan.com. The purpose of the study was to determine Kumparan.com's news frame in terms of media functions for covering protests against the the Omnibus Law on the Job Creation Act from October 3 to October 9, 2020. The news was analyzed using the Pan and Kosicki framing analysis. This study employs qualitative content analysis on the Kumparan.com article for the period of October 3 to October 9, 2020. In this study, the research method employing the Pan and Kosicki's Framing Analysis model operationalizes the four structural dimensions of the news text as a framing device: syntactic structure, structural scripts, thematic structures, and rhetorical structures. Using triangulation techniques and the hierarchy theory and social media construction theories, the existence of a phenomenon-formed public opinion is determined. This study found that the news reported by Kumparan.Com for the period of October 3 to October 9, 2020 regarding demonstrations against the Omnibus Law on the Job Creation Act resulted in the formation of negative public opinion, which was indirectly written on the news and seemed to lead readers to conclude that the policy is solely for the government's benefit and not for the betterment of society.