THE STUDY OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACT: THE CONTROVERSIAL “PRIBUMI” ANIES BASWEDAN’S SPEECH

After the campaign, the candidates had chosen did the programs for Jakarta as a place where they want to be. Anies Baswedan got believes from society so they are won the voters. The objective of this study is to reveal what Anies’s purpose in his speech. This study helps politician and linguist to understand and know about the meaning of Anies Baswedaan’s speech. In this study,the researcher talks about the controversial Anies’s speech which said “Pribumi” to Indonesian. Why Anies’s speech becomes a controversial on youtube?? Because half of netizens disagree to Anies statement and they said in youtube’s column comment. But half of the netizen don’t care about Anies’s speech calls Indonesian “pribumi”, there is no problem for them. This study applies qualitative research method approach. The data taken from YouTube as a main data collection. The data consists of Anies speech campaign video with 22 minutes duration, but researcher only takes in the duration 4.48 minutes. When writer analyzing the data, Researcher uses Speech Act Theory, which is proposed by John Searle.The end of this study, the researcher found that Anies mostly use representative speech act in his campaign speech. Since the representative speech act deals with the speaker’s belief, Anies believes there must be some improvements for Jakarta by using representatives act in his speech.