Sexing The News in Digital Platform: Analysis about Women's Sexual Violations Coverage

When Women are disscused in the news both in Indonesia and globally, they most often appear as victims. Baed on the result of media analysis report conducted by Komnas Perempuan from the period from July to December 2015, there is substantive news about women in Indonesia's media, with news about sexual violence against women being the most widely reported. There are many forms of violence against women such as domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape,abuse, and even kiling. Media coverage of these acts is often biased against victims, including victim stereotyping and blaming or criticzing victims. Existing literture shows that men have control the means of expression from the press and broadcasting, to advertising, film, publishing and even critism by occupying dominant positions within them, and they express this power through communication of ideas and values of a patriarchal order. Research by Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists indicates that online media is much worse, because as the creators of user-generated either ignore the guidelines or do not have any guidelines to follow. This rersearch focuses on how the online media portray women as the news object, both in sexual violation and how media sexing the news. Using qualitative method and Sara Mills discource analysis, this research explores the online new media's portrayal of women, especially in relation to sex cries and sexual violations, with the aim of ethics of online journalism.