Maritime Cultural Heritage of the Sandeq Festival: A Media Framing Perspective

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10.2991/978-2-38476-545-4_50How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sandeq Festival; Maritime Cultural Heritage; Media Framing; Mandar Culture; Online Journalism; Participatory Communication

Abstract

This study aims to examine how online media in Indonesia represent the Sandeq Festival as part of the maritime cultural heritage of the Mandar people. Employing a mixed-methods approach through both quantitative and qualitative content analysis, this research applies the framing theory proposed by Goffman (1974) and further developed by Entman (1993). Data were collected from 427 news articles published between 2010 and 2025 across various national and local online news portals. The findings reveal that coverage of the Sandeq Festival is dominated by the Agenda Sect. (88%), indicating a strong media orientation toward reporting current and ceremonial activities rather than thematic or reflective analyses. Media outlets such as tribunnews.com, fajar.co.id, and sulbarprov.go.id emerged as dominant sources, portraying government actors as the central figures in the narrative of publication. These results suggest that the media function primarily as agents of political legitimation and cultural policy promotion rather than as conveyors of cultural information. Conceptually, this study highlights how the media frame cultural heritage within the context of modernization and the politics of representation, while emphasizing the need for a more participatory cultural communication approach in the preservation of Indonesia’s maritime heritage.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Firmansyah
AU  - Muh Akbar
AU  - Alem Febri Sonni
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/13
TI  - Maritime Cultural Heritage of the Sandeq Festival: A Media Framing Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the World Conference on Governance and Social Sciences 2025 (WCGSS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 755
EP  - 769
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-545-4_50
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-545-4_50
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