Nitizen Hate Speech on Kaesang Pangarep’s Instagram Account: A Forensic Linguistic Study

This research examines netizen hate speech on Kaesang Pangarep's Instagram account, which is analyzed using forensic linguistic studies. This research procedure produces descriptive data describing hate speech on Kaesang Pangarep's Instagram column. The formulation of the phenomenon that occurs uses a descriptive approach to find out the language violations of netizens related to hate speech, which can become legal offenses. This research uses a forensic linguistic theoretical approach, focusing on pragmatic theory, because it is in the form of speech. Based on the nature and form of the data, as well as the objectives to be achieved, this research is descriptive qualitative. This type of research is library research. The research data comes from the comment section of Kaesang Pangarep's personal Instagram account. The object of this research is the hate speech of Kaesang Pangarep's Instagram column. This study found illocutionary speech acts in the hate speech against Kaesang Pangarep on Instagram. The illocutionary speech acts that appear in this study are commissive and expressive speech acts. The most dominant speech act is expressive illocutionary speech act. Of the 10 data analyzed, all of them contain expressive speech acts, and 1 data contains commissive and expressive speech acts. The utterances that appear in the comments are in the form of criticism and satire. The comments that appear express netizens' anger toward Kaesang Pangarep and his family for practicing nepotism and violating ethical values in Indonesia.