Muatan Politik Propaganda Kolonial Jepang dalam Cerpen dan Drama Karya Idrus

In this study, the forms of Japanese propaganda is revealed in Idrus’s short story “Ave Maria” and drama “Kejahatan Membalas Dendam”. Gramsci’s hegemony theory is applied to reveal them. The method used in analyzing the data is descriptive?analytic. The whole research is written in the narrative text. The result of the analysis shows that Idrus’s works written in the Japanese colonization have many of political contents, which was utilized by the Japanese government to spur the Indonesians’ spirit of war. The propaganda contents which were described in the works have the intention that the Indonesians must not only think their personal interest, but also the public interest. Another content is that Indonesian had to work hard to assist Japan in the war with Ally, in order to achieve Indonesian independence, as it had been promised by the Japanese government at the time.