| dc.description.abstract | The migration of Syrian refugees to Europe becomes a worldwide attention as there plenty of those refugees. This is humanity tragedy in this century. No wonder this human crisis issue becomes a global issue including in Indonesia. Syrian refugees waving have been blooding Europe. The situation triggered a big question. Whey they didn’t go to Gulf countries as like Saudi Arabia. It is reasonable because in geographic location closer than Europe countries, closer culturally and country. Due to migration of Syrian refugees, mass media both printed and online media intensively covered it. Media started to discuss why Syrian refugees prefer risking their life to escape to Europe instead of going to gulf countries? Refer to Shoemaker and Reese, how the media covered and framed the issue was influenced by individual factor, organizational policy as well as their ideology. Two local newspapers report different point of view towards how gulf countries take action towards this tragical situation. Kompas online (September 10, 2015 constructed that although Gulf countries such as Kuwait and UEA have donated a considerable amount of aids and that they also have contributed such a considerably support for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, what they have done are not sufficient compared to what Western countries like Britain and USA have already performed. Kompas online also stated that Gulf countries are attempting to maintain the political stability and it is believed that Syrian refugees will create the unstable condition. However, on the other side, Republika online (September 18, 2015 constructed that in fact as one of the Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia also has donated about 700 million dollars for Syrian refugees. Moreover, Saudi Arabia has also welcomed about 2,5 million Syrian refugees since 2011 and treat them as the same as other Saudi Arabian citizens. This fact is significant because Gulf countries have conducted a real action to support those refugees to work and achieve better than living in slum refugees camps. Therefore, by apprehending the two different frames on the same topic, this research aims at finding out how two different Media construct news pertaining how Gulf countries respond toward Syrian refugees’ problem. Method used in this research is framing analysis using Robert Entmant model. Result of this research is that Kompas online frames Gulf countries fail to open doors and provide assistance to Syrian refugees. Meanwhile, Republika online frames portrayed Gulf countries have done the best that they could to support Syrian refugees. Implication of this research is that in order to understand the reality made by media, we need to know how media capture the fact and construct the news. Result of this research reminds us that every media has its own ideology and its definition of objective. | en_US |
