Asahi Shimbun Sebagai Watchdog Pemerintah Jepang. Studi Kasus: Pengerahan Japan Self Defence Force (SDF) Dalam Menanggapi Isu 11 September 2001

GIGIH AGUNG, Drs. Usmar Salam, MIS

2014 | Skripsi | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

jepang dideskripsikan sebagai negara yang telah menggunakan sistem demokrasi sebagai landasan negaranya. namun tidak demikian dengan sistem media massanya. media massa terkenal dengan sistem sensor media yang cukup ketat demi melindungi kebijakan pemerintah dan aktor politik lainnya. melalui skripsi ini, penulis membuktikan bahwa masih ada media yang berani berperan sebagai watchdog pemerintah jepang. media itu adalah Asahi Shimbun. melalui studi kasus 11 September 2001 akan dibuktikan bahwa Asahi Shimbun menentang pemerintah.

Japan is described as a nation with good democracy values. Unfortunately, international community consider that Japanese Media as a media with a great censorship that no one can see the inside, except the Japanese itself. One of the key factor why does japan's media do that kind of thing because of kisha clubs. Kisha clubs is a community who are responsible for that censorship. Censorship is needed to protects the VIP such as politician, Prime minister, minister, the emperor, and other important person. The other factor is the cultural practice such like "Giri" who makes someone feel obliged to someone's good deeds, so that person couldn't judged them objectively. Similar on this case. When journalists feel obliged to some politicians, those journalists couldn't criticize objectively toward the politicians. That's why every news articles in every daily newspaper seemed similar towards each other. But this paper wants to prove that there's still daily newspaper who can perform a watchdog role. Asahi shimbun is the one. By using 9/11 issue, the writer proved that Asahi Shimbun could performed a watchdog role towards PM Junichiro Koizumi's policy which is the deployment of Japan Self Defense Force (SDF) as a respond to 9/11 issue

Kata Kunci : Asahi Shimbun, Kisha Clubs, Junichiro Koizumi, Self Censorship, September, 11th, 2001.