Polemik Program Sertifikasi Dai: Studi Wacana Kritis di Media Massa

Abstract

This research tries to uncover the issues surrounding the controversy over the application of standardization by the Ministry of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia to Islamic preachers or teachers in Indonesia. This controversy has been going on for a long time, so before it was implemented, there were several changes to the name of the program in order to avoid polemics in the community. The exchange of discourse between policy makers and policy recipients is interesting for further investigation. In Michel Foucault's concept the ongoing discourse (episteme) is referred to as a power relation; which involves two conflicting parties fighting for influence. Foucault also thinks that the use of a particular standardization project is a strategy to gain power. The question is whether it is true that what Foucault points out is also true in the teaching space of religion, where so far (historically there have been similar cases in the colonial period in the 19th century) the impression of religion is far from being a matter of politics or power. In order to get answers to these questions, the researchers used a research method similar to that developed by Foucault, namely Critical Discourse Analysis or better known as CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis). This method emphasizes correcting the discourse that develops in the community, especially regarding the standardization program for religious teachers (da'i or ustad). This method also develops a way of researching by looking at the news in the mass media, where the news produces certain knowledge that is considered new. Therefore, the researcher collect data in three ways; field observations, in-depth interviews and documentation. According to the researcher, these three methods have been able to represent the same way that was done by Michel Foucault. he findings produced by the researchers are to find three factors that influence the dynamics of the pattern of power relations. Namely transparency, communication, and politicization.