Hate speech “Jokowi the enemy of democracy”:A forensic linguistics study

This study aims to analyze evidence from a hate speech case that received a court verdict in 2020, as reported by the national online media Detik news on June 5, 2020.The research employs Teun A. van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as the theoretical framework, emphasizing three main dimensions: text, social cognition, and social context.It is further integrated with a forensic linguistics approach to assess the legal relevance of the discourse within the framework of Indonesian law.The study adopts a qualitative method using content analysis as the primary analytical technique.The data consist of six Facebook posts by MN, cited in the article titled "Jokowi Penjahat Demokrasi."The findings reveal that the discourse in these posts contains elements of hate speech, defamation, dissemination of false information, and insults related to ethnicity, race, and religion (SARA), which are legally relevant under the Indonesian Penal Code (KUHP) and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law (UU ITE).