TRAGEDI KANJURUHAN SEPAK BOLA INDONESIA: ANALISIS WACANA DIGITAL PADA AKUN PODCAST THE MAPLE MEDIA DI YOUTUBE

Abstract

This study examines the digital discourse surrounding the Kanjuruhan football tragedy as represented in an episode of The Maple Media podcast on YouTube, titled #Rewind With Oki Rengga: Tragedi Kanjuruhan & Sepak Bola Indonesia. The research addresses how the tragedy is discursively constructed in a digital media space that combines a resource person's narrative with audience interaction in the comment section. Using a qualitative approach, the study applies digital discourse analysis across four dimensions, namely text, context, interaction, and ideology/power, together with Berger and Luckmann's social construction of reality theory, which explains meaning-making through externalization, objectivation, and internalization. Data were drawn from the podcast transcript and viewer comments. The findings show that the host externalizes emotional responses, criticism of stakeholders, and social reflection regarding the tragedy; these views are then objectivated into shared understandings of collective responsibility, supporter fanaticism as a risk factor, the federation's central role, and the importance of accountability and transparency. Audience comments demonstrate internalization through agreement with the narrative, adoption of justice-related values, awareness of the need for change, and hope for reform of Indonesian football governance. The study concludes that the podcast functions as a public discursive space that constructs the Kanjuruhan tragedy as a collective, structural, and humanitarian issue, while also revealing an unequal power relation between the public and football institutions that digital media helps renegotiate.