Symbolic Efforts for Maintaining Anti-Communist Discourse on Matan Magazine

The discourse of communism in Indonesia is closely related to the tragedies involving the Communist Party
of Indonesia (PKI). The meaning of the ideology of communism has become a symbolic fight arena. PKI as
victims or as perpetrators of the massacre into a debate that continues to this day. The assumption has
implications on the meaning of "communism as an ideology" in Indonesia. That to this day is still a scourge
of communism for most of society is a reality. Although Suharto has fallen, the effort to preserve the anticommunist
discourse into a phenomenon in Indonesia. This research study focuses on how Matan Magazine
in East Java Magazine seeks to maintain the anti-communist discourse. The goal is to get the power to
produce and show the view of the world's most recognized, most assumed to be true, which has legitimacy—
symbolic preservation efforts on the anti-communist discourse conducted with menaissance strategy, namely
euphemisms, sensorics and implicature. Besides, Matan shows some old wells to preserve the discourse.
Through the method of critical discourse analysis, this study showed that up to now the Muhammadiyah
Islamic organization which active in reproducing the anti-communist discourse in Indonesia. It is through
images and written narrative in which the magazine wanted to instill a spirit of cruelty, crime and other things
are wrong on the PKI or communism. In addition to writing story and productive sites in reproducing
discourse, there are still many characters that way figures have not shifted at all on the hegemony of the
regime. Way of thinking that tends to stagnate on the anti-communist discourse correlated with the idea of the
purification in Muhammadiyah.