AGENDA SETTING HARIAN TRIBUN BATAM DALAM PEMBERITAAN IMPLEMENTASI KAWASAN EKONOMI KHUSUS

Ageng Rara Cindoswari, Sholihul Abidin, Hendri Herman

Abstract

The agenda of setting media is the media directing the public what is the main issue and perceived by the
public as the main issue. The agenda setting concept recognizes three agendas, namely the media agenda,
the public agenda, and the policy agenda. Type This research is descriptive research with quantitative
approach and survey method. Location and object of research is selected purposively (deliberately) where
the City of Batam is a city given the privilege of the status of the region that is Special Economic Zone
(KEK). The sample was 399 people determined by cluster random sampling. The research was conducted by
spreading the questionnaire and analyzed by Rank Spearman correlation. The result of this research shows
that 63,4% of SEZ implementation report in Batam Tribun Daily has high media agenda, 74,2% contains
high enough public agenda.