Digital Mass Media in Framing LGBT News in Indonesia

Abstract

The development of mass media has a vital role in spreading understanding about something. Framing done by the media can influence how the public views reality. This can happen because of technological developments that facilitate the dissemination of information written by the media to the public, such as the news about LGBT. News about LGBT can cause problems because LGBT involves two sensitive sides, namely the basis of humanity and the basis of religion. This research aims to determine how the VICE Indonesia news portal frames LGBT news in Indonesia. The research method used is descriptive qualitative research, where researchers want to know and describe the news about LGBT written by VICE Indonesia. The data analysis used in this research is Robert N Entman's framing analysis model. The subject of this research is VICE Indonesia, while the object of this research is the news about LGBT in Indonesia. The data collection technique in this research is a documentation study, which is used to select news coverage following the research objectives. The results of this study show that VICE Indonesia supports the existence of LGBT in Indonesia on humanitarian grounds because differences in sexual orientation are not something that should be questioned. VICE Indonesia also considers the criminalization of LGBT people in Indonesia to be a violation of human rights.