Riots in Indonesian Main Island: Peace Action of Defend Islam Impact on Economic Environment in Local Media Discourse

Indonesia is a maritime country with the largest numbers of islands in the world which
covering more than seventeen thousands islands. There are thousand tribes and ethnics with their
cultures suppose to be enriching the diversity of Indonesia. However a series of riots happening in
Indonesia including Aksi Bela Islam (ABI) recently challenging the unity in diversity of Indonesia.
This present study tries to describe Aksi Bela Islam (ABI) (The Peace Action of Defend Islam) rally
that run peacefully brings impacts on Indonesia economic sector as stable social and political
condition will bring significant impact on Indonesia economic sector. The rally is a long journey of
Indonesia of Muslim majority to seek justice as the Republic of Indonesia State Police seems not to
be serious to handle the Islamic blasphemy case. Through the framing approach, it will be described
how ABI brings impacts on the economic sector focusing on the study on the media perspectives.
From the perspective of one leading economic magazines in Indonesia Bisnis Indonesia.The framing
from the media evidently showed that the rallyfollowed by millions of Indonesian Muslims does not
bring negative impacts on the economic sector of Indonesia sinceit run peacefully, well manage and
safe so the market gives a positive response and appreciationto the action.
Keyword: Media Discourse, Indonesian Economic and Islamic Movement