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Abstract

Political leaders always carefully choose what to say and how to state it, as all words count for influencing the public, explicitly or implicitly. Eventually, the ideas framed in a political statement are best understood contextually rather than merely textually. After Prabowo Subianto, the president of Indonesia, visited China in November 2024, both countries released a controversial joint statement. This article aims to analyse the political frames observable in the 2024 China-Indonesia joint statement with a discourse analysis method. The article found five political frames in the statement: 1) Indonesia agrees to China’s vision of global order; 2) China has a positive image as a trustworthy and non-discriminatory power; 3) Indonesia is open to intimate defence cooperation with China; 4) Indonesia aligns with and is on China’s side; 5) Indonesia supports China’s critical domestic and international ambition. With these findings, this paper argues that the joint statement is in favour of China politically and costs Indonesia its political image as a free, active, and democratic country.

Bahasa Abstract

Pemimpin politik selalu dengan hati-hati memilih apa yang akan dikatakan dan bagaimana menyatakannya, karena semua kata yang digunakan berperan penting memengaruhi publik, secara eksplisit atau pun implisit. Oleh karenanya, ide-ide yang dibingkai dalam pernyataan politik paling baik dipahami secara kontekstual daripada hanya secara tekstual. Setelah Prabowo Subianto, presiden Indonesia, mengunjungi Tiongkok pada November 2024, kedua negara merilis pernyataan bersama yang kontroversial. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis bingkai politik yang dapat diamati dalam pernyataan bersama Tiongkok-Indonesia 2024 tersebut dengan metode analisis wacana. Artikel ini menemukan lima bingkai politik dalam pernyataan tersebut: 1) Indonesia setuju dengan visi Tiongkok tentang tatanan global; 2) Tiongkok memiliki citra positif sebagai kekuatan yang dapat dipercaya dan tidak diskriminatif; 3) Indonesia terbuka untuk kerja sama pertahanan yang erat dengan Tiongkok; 4) Indonesia berpihak pada sisi Tiongkok; 5) Indonesia mendukung ambisi domestik dan internasional Tiongkok yang krusial. Dengan ini, makalah ini berpendapat bahwa pernyataan bersama tersebut menguntungkan Tiongkok secara politik dan merugikan citra politik Indonesia sebagai negara yang bebas, aktif, dan demokratis.

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