Abstract:
This present study attempts to identify the hidden ideology of the Indonesian Presidents’ speeches in the post new order. By using an amalgamation of analytical tools, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) incorporates with
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), especially Martin and White's (2005) The subtypes of Appraisal system,
Attitudinal analysis (Abiog, E. B., & David, R. 2020) to uncover the ideological stance inside the presidential
speech texts. This paper has two main objectives. Firstly, it is to identify the most frequent distribution of the
social actor as being targeted in the speeches. Secondly, it is to uncover ideological stance realized through
lexical choices of utterances toward social actors. The research data was selected from two prominent
presidential speeches of President Susilo Yudhoyono (henceforth, SBY) 3386 words and President Jokowi
Widodo (henceforth, Jokowi) 3386 words. This present research was designed qualitatively. The results showed
judgmental subcategory surpassed the other two attitudinal categories by a large margin in the speeches of SBY
and Jokowi with more than 54 % (81 instances) of attitudinal choices. The exceeding judgmental category was
used to identify how SBY and Jokowi evaluated the selected actors (Government, People, and Politician). The
exceeding of tenacity resources upon the other subtypes of Judgment by a small margin with 15 instances
exceeded SBY by a split gap with 14 instances. The most frequent subtype of tenacity was to evaluate the social
actors indicated someone is dependable to overcome their obstacles. Thus, SBY and Jokowi evaluated the people
of Indonesia as the dependable actors positively inscribed evaluation of tenacity to give stress to the audiences
since they delivered explicitly to avoid misunderstanding between the presidents with audiences. Real support
from the people urgently needed to build good power relations. This study was concluded SBY and Jokowi
evaluated the people of Indonesia using positively inscribed evaluation toward the people of Indonesia to
describe their positive value toward the people of Indonesia as the dependable people to work hard with their
strength. This was done by both presidents to obtain the public's trust to support their power.
