Socio-Political Criticism in Indonesian Stand-Up Comedy Discourse

Abstract

Political issues are intimately connected to society, allowing anyone to provide an evaluation on them. Nonetheless, socio-political critique is a challenging endeavor. The public should exercise caution in this regard owing to possible legal ramifications. Consequently, humor may be employed to express comparatively secure socio-political critique. Comedians often engage in socio-political commentary, either as a joke or as a serious point. This study aims to elucidate the various forms of socio-political critique and the frameworks of premise construction in the socio-political commentary found in Indonesian stand-up comedy (SUCI) discourse. This research aims to analyze the socio-political critique of the SUCI discourse. The data for this study comprises the talk from the SUCI special show. The data source is the transcription of the SUCI special show recording, which was acquired through the use of the unstructured dialogue technique and examined using a critical discourse analysis framework. The findings of this study reveal that socio-political criticism encompasses social critiques directed at political figures, events, behaviors, policies, and terminology within the realm of politics. The foundations of social criticism are elucidated through the methods of omission, amalgamation, and fabrication. The nature of socio-political criticism does not specifically influence the technique of uncovering premises. Nevertheless, all premises are disclosed primarily by omission. The premeditated preparation of the SUCI material, as opposed to its spontaneous creation on stage, accounts for the prevalence of the deletion approach utilized. Researchers advocate for additional investigation into the quality of argumentation in socio-political criticism within the SUCI discourse.