GHANCARAN: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia

Constructing ecological discourse in online news: A critical ecolinguistic analysis of Detik.com's coverage of the Al-Khoziny Islamic Boarding School collapse

Khusnul Khotimah — 2026-07-15

This study aims to analyze the construction of ecological discourse in the reporting of the collapse of the Al-Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in Sidoarjo as covered by Detik.com. The study employs a Critical Eco-Discourse Analysis approach, combining Stibbe’s ecolinguistic framework and Fairclough’s critical discourse model, to examine how events, actors, and ecological ideologies are represented in online news texts. Data were collected from Detik.com articles reporting the chronology, causes, and impacts of the building collapse. The findings indicate that the media primarily framed the incident as a technical tragedy while largely overlooking ecological and regulatory factors such as dense spatial planning, soil conditions, and limited building standards. The role of supervisory institutions and eco-boarding school mitigation practices was rarely mentioned. These results highlight the need to strengthen ecological discourse in pesantren reporting by involving diverse sources and emphasizing environmental, governance, and student safety aspects. This study concludes that Detik.com’s coverage tends to marginalize ecological dimensions and institutional responsibility, thereby limiting public understanding of the structural and environmental factors underlying the incident. The study contributes theoretically to the ecolinguistics of pesantren and practically to the development of safer and more sustainable pesantren management policies.

Mimesis in Mobile Legends hero narratives: Recontextualizing Indonesian literary works

Lukman Hakim — 2026-07-15

This study examines Mobile Legends as a popular digital medium that recontextualizes Indonesian literary and folkloric narratives through game characters. Previous studies on Mobile Legends have mainly focused on visual representation, cultural identity, gender, and player behavior, while the relation between Indonesian literary sources and game narratives through mimetic and narrative analysis remains less explored. This study aims to reveal the mimetic patterns and narrative recontextualization of Gatotkaca and Kadita in Mobile Legends. Using a qualitative interpretive method, this study applies Abrams’s mimetic perspective and Greimas’s narrative analysis to examine character lore, hero descriptions, visual-audiovisual elements, and intertextual relations with the narratives of Gatotkaca, Nyi Roro Kidul, Putri Kandita, the Mahabharata, wayang traditions, and related Indonesian literary-folkloric sources. The findings show that Gatotkaca and Kadita are transformed through three levels of mimesis: idea, sensory-cultural form, and artistic-digital work. Gatotkaca is recontextualized from a wayang heroic figure into a ludic subject oriented toward defense, attack, and competitive gameplay, while Kadita is transformed from a mythic sea queen figure into a mage hero whose sacred maritime power becomes a playable ability. This study contributes by integrating Abrams’s mimesis and Greimas’s narrative structure to explain how Indonesian literary figures are reshaped into narrative, visual, and ludic functions in mobile game media.

Phallic minarets and masculine subjectivity in Ahmad Fuadi’s Negeri 5 Menara: Daniélouian Lingga and Lacanian Phallocentrism perspectives

Moh Atikurrahman — 2026-07-15

This article explores the phallic and patriarchal imaginaries structuring Ahmad Fuadi’s widely celebrated Islamic Bildungsroman Negeri 5 Menara. Focusing on the recurrent motif of the minaret and other vertical architectures, this study reads these structures as a chain of lingga-like monuments that concentrate male creativity, religious aspiration, and class ascent, while rendering female figures structurally marginal. The analysis builds on a qualitative close reading of the novel’s narrative, triangulating Daniélou’s conception of the lingga as sacred sign of male creative power with Lacanian concept of the phallus as empty signifier, the formation of subjectivity, and phallogocentrism. Through this lens, Alif Fikri and the Sahibul Menara emerge as paradigmatic subjects whose desires, failures, and eventual success are organised around the minaret as symbolic centre, whereas women—Amak, Alif’s sister, and other peripheral figures—are confined to what the one-sex model and phallic norm encode as remainder, lack, or abject. The article shows that, beneath its inspirational rhetoric of “Man Jadda Wajada” and its celebration of perseverance, Negeri 5 Menaraquietly reproduces a long-standing pattern in Indonesian prose whereby the project of “building civilisation” is reserved for masculine bodies aligned with the phallus. This article reframes a widely acclaimed pesantren novel as a key site for rethinking gendered subjectivity, Islamic schooling, and class formation in contemporary Indonesian literature.

Women’s representation in Sundanese folklore: A local feminist approach to gender literacy

Sumiyati Sumiyati — 2026-07-16

Structural gender inequality persists in Sundanese society despite the cultural philosophy of silih asah, silih asih, and silih asuh, while folklore continues to transmit gender norms across generations. However, studies examining Sundanese folklore through a local feminist perspective to support gender literacy remain limited. This study investigates patterns of women's representation, identifies the local feminist values embedded in four Sundanese folktales (Sangkuriang, Lutung Kasarung, Nyi Pohaci Sanghyang Sri, and Nyi Anteh), and explores their potential contribution to gender-literacy learning within Indonesia's Independent Curriculum. Employing a qualitative descriptive design, the study integrates content and thematic analysis through three coding stages (open coding, focused coding, and thematic synthesis) with credibility enhanced by source triangulation and multi-coder verification. The findings reveal three dialectically interconnected models of women's representation: domestic-submissive, resistant-empowered, and ambivalent figures. These representations embody four interrelated local feminist values: inner fortitude, moral integrity, relational wisdom, and non-confrontational cultural resistance. The study argues that these values constitute an indigenous feminist epistemology that complements and extends dominant Western feminist frameworks by emphasizing culturally embedded forms of agency and resistance. Practically, the findings demonstrate the pedagogical potential of Sundanese folklore as culturally responsive learning materials for fostering students' critical gender literacy, although further classroom-based intervention studies are needed to evaluate their instructional effectiveness.

Students’ literary literacy across cognitive processes in reading A.A. Navis’ short story Robohnya Surau Kami

Dina Ramadhanti — 2026-07-16

Students' ability to interpret implicit meanings, symbolism, and social criticism in literary texts remains limited, despite these competencies being fundamental to literary literacy and higher-order reading comprehension. Existing studies have predominantly assessed general reading proficiency, with relatively little attention to the cognitive processes underlying literary reading. This study aims to examine students' literary reading abilities based on cognitive processes and identify their levels of literary literacy through their responses to A.A. Navis's short story Robohnya Surau Kami. The study is grounded in the cognitive reading process framework and Kintsch's Construction–Integration Model, which conceptualizes reading comprehension as the dynamic construction of meaning through interactions among textual information, prior knowledge, and inferential reasoning. Employing a quantitative descriptive design, the study involved 31 Indonesian senior high school students who completed a multiple-choice literary literacy test measuring six cognitive processes: searching for information, understanding, analyzing, inferring, synthesizing, and evaluating. Descriptive statistical analysis revealed an overall mean score of 67.08, indicating a moderate level of literary reading ability. Students demonstrated the strongest performance in synthesizing and evaluating but showed the weakest performance in inferential reasoning, highlighting difficulties in constructing implicit meanings. Literary literacy levels ranged from basic comprehension to advanced evaluative reading, with most students clustered at the understanding and analytical levels. These findings suggest that literary literacy develops through non-linear cognitive processes shaped by the semantic complexity and interpretive demands of literary texts, underscoring the need for explicit instructional support to strengthen students' inferential and interpretive reading skills.

Khadijah’s feminism and polygamy in cinema: A re-examination of gender equality in Islam and Indonesian film

Ririe Rengganis — 2026-07-17

Research on polygamy in Indonesian cinema has largely been dominated by Western feminist perspectives and moral-sociological approaches, often overlooking the progressive theological dimensions embedded within Islamic teachings. Yet Islam offers the exemplary figure of Khadijah Ra. bint Khuwaylid, whose life embodies ethical leadership, economic autonomy, and gender justice. This study formulates the concept of “Khadijah Feminism” as a theological-ethical framework and examines the representation of women and polygamy in four Indonesian films: Berbagi Suami (2006), Surga yang Tak Dirindukan (2015), Madu Murni (2023), and 1 Imam 2 Makmum (2025). Employing Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, the research integrates textual-narrative analysis, cinematographic interpretation, and Islamic feminist hermeneutics through the ethical lens of Khadijah. The findings demonstrate that most films continue to reproduce patriarchal religious discourses by portraying women’s patience and obedience as the primary indicators of piety while marginalizing Khadijah’s model of agency, justice, and moral leadership. In contrast, Madu Murni and Berbagi Suami present female protagonists who challenge patriarchal norms through economic independence, ethical reasoning, and resistance to injustice. Furthermore, polygamy is predominantly represented as a male privilege rather than as a morally accountable institution constrained by the Qur'anic principles of justice articulated in An-Nisa (4):3 and (4):129. This study contributes to Islamic feminist scholarship by introducing “Khadijah Feminism” as an alternative analytical framework that integrates faith, gender equality, and spiritual agency, while recommending more theologically grounded and ethically responsible representations of Muslim women in contemporary Indonesian cinema.

The narrative of Sound Horeg as Indonesian popular culture: A critical discourse analysis

Ahmad Rizky Wahyudi — 2026-07-20

Current digital public spheres provide a new medium for one Indonesian grassroots community group to bring sound horeg as its local cultural expression into national discussions. From an opposing side, dominant discourses from formal authorities and mainstream media continuously frame the practice of sound horeg as a social threat. This condition raises the urgency to examine subcultural actors' strategies in negotiating stigma and seizing the cultural legitimacy of sound horeg within Indonesian society. Proceeding from this issue, this study examines sound horeg as Indonesian popular culture situated within public debates on noise, morality, and social order. The research aims to analyze sound horeg representation and its identity negotiation through Memed Potensio's narrative as a practitioner in the Aduan Masyarakat program on Trètan Universe's YouTube channel. The qualitative descriptive method uses Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis integrated with Stuart Hall’s representation theory. Data obtained from the relevant episode's transcription were analyzed across textual, discourse practice, and sociocultural dimensions. The study concludes that sound horeg discourse in digital media spaces operates as a counter-practice resisting dominant cultural hegemony. Subcultural actors successfully deconstruct negative stigmas like 'illegal', 'immoral', and 'tacky' labels attached by formal authorities and urbanites. This discursive practice strategically shifts sound horeg from a mere social disturbance into a manifestation of collective identity legitimacy, communal solidarity, and cultural sovereignty for grassroots communities and the local working class. Theoretically, this research expands the application of critical discourse analysis to Indonesian local popular culture phenomena.

Ecofeminism in Indonesian fiction: Gender, land, and resistance in the era of environmental degradation

Ria Kasanova — 2026-07-21

Ecocritical studies in Indonesian literature have developed rapidly; however, most still focus on the human–nature relationship without adequately integrating gender and postcolonial contexts into their analyses. This study aims to fill this gap by analysing the representations of the relationships between women, land, and power in Indonesian fiction through a postcolonial ecofeminist framework. The study focuses on three works: Tanah Tabu by Anindita S. Thayf, Saman by Ayu Utami, and Sihir Perempuan by Intan Paramaditha. This study used a qualitative approach with narrative and thematic analyses conducted through coding processes and comparative synthesis across texts. The results revealed three main patterns. First, women are represented as ecological victims in colonised and exploitative landscapes. Second, women appear as agents of resistance who negotiate power relations through their bodies and spirituality and through social practices. Third, women function as epistemic mediators who utilise local myths and spiritual knowledge to challenge the dominant ecological discourses. These findings show that literary works not only represent environmental crises but also produce alternative ecological knowledge that is grounded in local contexts. This study contributes to the development of ecofeminist studies by emphasising the importance of intersectional perspectives from Global South contexts in Indonesian literary studies and by expanding ecocriticism as a field of knowledge production and ecological resistance.

Marginalization of women in the Novel Racun Puan as strengthening critical literacy in Indonesian language learning in high school

Ananda Nur Aprilia Ika Widyaningsih — 2026-07-21

This research was conducted because Ni Nyoman Ayu Suciartini's novel Racun Puan presents the issue of gender inequality. In addition, there has been no study related to the marginalization of women in the novel. The purpose of this study is to describe the forms of marginalization of women in the novel and to provide teaching materials to strengthen critical literacy in Indonesian language learning. The method used in this study is qualitative descriptive. The data used consists of quotes that reflect the marginalization of women, with the data sources taken from the novel Racun Puan by Ni Nyoman Ayu Suciartini. Data in the form of information about the use of marginalization in the novel as teaching materials for critical literacy, with data sources from peers and teachers at SMA N 1 Jatinom. Data collection techniques included literature study, questionnaires, and interviews. Data analysis, using semiotic reading methods and interactive models. The results of the study were (1) forms of marginalization of women in the form of control over their right to express their opinions, their movements, and their social relationships (2) as teaching materials for strengthening critical literacy in Indonesian language learning.

An integrative Discursive Pragmatics study of sarcastic humor in Instagram Reels, August–September 2025

Irene Imelda Gulo — 2026-07-21

This study aims to describe the pragmatic markers, meanings, and functions of sarcastic humor found in posts and comments on the Instagram account @Laporpak_trans7 during the period of August–September 2025. This research employs a qualitative descriptive method with observation and note-taking techniques, and the data are analyzed using an integrative discursive pragmatic approach that connects linguistic aspects, pragmatic meanings, and sociocultural contexts. The findings reveal that sarcastic humor markers appear in expressions such as “tanah kuburan diambil 😭😭😂” (“the government might take graveyards too”), “mirip kakak sadewo 😂😂😂” (“looks like brother Sadewo”), “jangan baper klo jadi DPR🤣” (“don’t be too sensitive if you’re a parliament member”), “ani-ani 🤣🤣”, and “nggak dipublish🤭” (“not published”). In terms of pragmatic meaning, sarcastic humor represents extreme satire (hyperbole), identity-based ridicule through wordplay, direct criticism of parliament members, mockery of greed and officials’ lifestyles, and criticism of non-transparent government policies. Regarding its pragmatic functions, sarcastic humor serves as an emotional release toward government policies, a directive reprimand to public officials, a representation of the people’s voice regarding parliamentary performance, a form of social critique of officials’ privileges, and a reaction to public dissatisfaction with governmental actions. Overall, sarcastic humor on social media functions not merely as entertainment but also as a critical discourse strategy and a form of linguistic democracy through which people negotiate power and express social criticism in a creative and polite manner.

Bibliometric trends in CLIL for BIPA learning mapping publication, collaboration, and citation trends

Khansa Wynonna Wijayakusumah — 2026-07-21

Increased global attention to BIPA has encouraged the use of the Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach, but research on this topic is considered inconsistent and individualistic. This study aims to map publication trends, collaboration patterns, and the impact of CLIL research citations on BIPA using bibliometric analysis assisted by R Studio Biblioshiny. The results of the analysis show a significant surge in publications in 2021 due to pandemic adaptation, with Indonesia identified as a major knowledge center. However, critical findings reveal a clear gap in international collaboration, with publications dominated by Single Country Publications (SCP). This indicates a lack of research partnerships between Indonesian researchers and other countries. The study concludes that there is a need to transform individual initiatives into a strategic national agenda. Implicitly, policymakers need to prioritize cross-border research collaboration as an instrument of language diplomacy to strengthen the relevance and existence of BIPA globally.