National Figure Leadership Construction In The Movie "Ketika Bung Di Ende"

Abstract

This research discusses Soekarno’s leadership construction as a national figure framed in the movie “Ketika Bung di Ende” as a film that raised the critical phase which rarely examined in the life of Soekarno. This study rests on the theory of Construction Reality Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman through movie as a mass media. Using the framing analysis of William A. Gamson and Andre Modgliani to see how the events are governed by the ideas and its problems, by using Metaphors, Catchphrases, Exemplar, Depiction and Visual Images as well as reasoning devices with the use of roots, appeals to principle, and consequences as Framing Devices; the director and the screenwriter then form their intended construction on Soekarno’s leadership. The conclusions obtained from this study are as a medium of communication,, the movie can be used to construct Soekarno as a free-spirited leader and anti imperialism; eager and devoted to unity, embracing all people, and religious ideologues. Soekarno is a leader with democratic and transformational constellation of traits that still adheres to the philosophy of Pancasila.