GERAKAN KRISTIANISASI & PERANAN MEDIA DI MALAYSIA: SATU KAJIAN KES TERHADAP PELAPORAN AKHBAR UTUSAN MALAYSIA DAN THE STAR
Christian Missionaries & the Role of Media in Malaysia: A Case Study on the Reporting By Utusan Malaysia and the Star Newspapers
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https://doi.org/10.33102/abqari.vol15no1.34Keywords:
Christian missionaries, media portrayal, media and IslamAbstract
Over the past decades, Malaysia has witnessed Christian mission carrying out missionary works through an organized effort to spread Christianity among the Malay Muslims. The issues on these missionaries have attracted considerable concerns among the society, particularly the Malays who are very synonym to Islam. The mass media plays an important role in providing reliable information to the readers through their reporting as well as their tendency on a particular issue. Hence, the aim of this paper was to study the reporting on the controversial issue of apostasy attempts to convert Muslims by the Christian missionaries at the Damansara Methodist Church (DUMC) in 2012, including as the role played by the mainstream newspapers, namely Utusan Malaysia and The Star that are written in different languages with different target audiences in their reporting on this issue. The methods of quantitative and qualitative content analysis were used in this study. The results had shown that Utusan Malaysia had given more prominence and visibility on the issue than The Star newspaper and Utusan Malaysia was found to support the actions taken by the JAIS against the DUMC church in its reporting.
Keywords: Christian missionaries, media portrayal, media and Islam.
Abstrak
Mutakhir ini, negara Malaysia sering kali berhadapan dengan masalah Kristianisasi yang berlaku dalam kalangan masyarakat Melayu Islam. Tidak kurang juga cubaan untuk memurtadkan umat Islam dan beberapa isu lagi yang melibatkan agenda tertentu gerakan Kristianisasi ini. Gerakan Kristianisasi ini telah menimbulkan kerisauan dalam kalangan ahli masyarakat terutamannya kaum Melayu yang begitu sinonim dengan Islam. Media memainkan peranan yang penting dalam memberi maklumat kepada pembaca mengenai isu Kristianisasi yang berlaku dan menunjukkan kecenderungan masing-masing dalam melaporkan mengenai sesuatu isu itu. Oleh itu, artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji perlaporan serta peranan yang dimainkan oleh akhbar arus perdana berlainan bahasa dan kumpulan sasaran iaitu Utusan Malaysia dan The Star dalam melaporkan mengenai sebuah isu yang dikaitkan dengan gerakan Kristianisasi iaitu cubaan untuk memurtadkan orang Islam di gereja Damansara Methodist Church (DUMC) pada tahun 2012. Kajian ini telah menggunakan pendekatan analisis kandungan kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Dapatan kajian ini mendapati akhbar Utusan Malaysia memberi keutamaan dan penonjolan yang lebih mengenai isu berbanding akhbar The Star dan Utusan Malaysia didapati lebih menyokong tindakan yang diambil oleh pihak JAIS terhadap gereja DUMC dalam pelaporannya.
Kata kunci: Kristianisasi, pemaparan media, media dan Islam.
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