Adinda Kusuma Wardani , 2211414050 (2019) SINKING UNDER THE AUTHORITY: COMPARISON BETWEEN WIJI THUKUL’S NYANYIAN AKAR RUMPUT AND LAJIMAN JANOORY’S THE DEATH OF INNOCENCE AS A REVELATION OF CLASS DISTINCTION. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

This final project entitled Sinking Under The Authority: Comparative Study Of Indonesian And Malaysian Poem By Widji Thukul And Lajiman Janoory. In this study, I examine politics, economy, and social problems which prevail in two poems from Malaysia and Indonesia. This study is focused on two problems; they are first, how do Wiji Thukul’s A Song of The Grassroots and Lajiman Janoory’s The Death of Innocence reflect the social and political condition of Indonesia and Malaysia, second how do these two poems reveals a class distinction, and what do the poets want from their poems. The data were obtained by reading the poems intensively, understanding, inventorying, and analyzing the data. This study will use Marxism approach to identify the class division which occurs in the society. It will discuss the social and political differences between Indonesia and Malaysia which are revealed in the poems. Moreover, the reaction of the poets which is influenced by their social class is also being discussed. From the data analysis it can be concluded that first, Indonesia and Malaysia are in the same political condition where the government takes control over the citizen, hence they are lacking in managing their job as the authority party. Second, each poet has a different spirit of fighting toward he condition occurring in their own country. The last, both poems are different in the way they are reacting and criticizing based on their background, class, and intention on how they are affected and influenced by their scale of “suffering” in their lives.

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