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trading strategy) plays a role in playing the aforementioned discourse. Thus, it is
very important to have a deep review for a given discourse, either explicitly or
implicitly.
By the case of New Order above, it can be concluded that discourse with
power has a systematic relationship; that a power will be sustainable if it has
succeeded in mastering public opinion or the ideological side of society as an
object of control, in which for this reason the use of discourse is needed. In that
case, the mastery of public opinion was successfully carried out by the New Order
by distributing and stabilizing the discourse of communism that was very cruel
and inhumane so that it was natural for them to be suppressed. Jones in his
summary of Foucault (as cited in Bahasoan & Kotarumalos) says humans will
only know the truth according to what they understand in human discourse itself,
and it is clear that humans are also hindered and limited by the particular
discourse they face.
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Furthermore, Foucault explained that power is a mechanism that creates
legal rationality and knowledge as a tool to enforce greater power. For instance,
an incumbent governor who wants to regain political power will work hard to
dominate all sources of power and knowledge directly related to the process of
political succession. As a step to win, this incumbent as a candidate will have
consultation with various elements, especially the election organizers (e.g. KPU
and Bawaslu) as the most responsible elements in controlling power through their
knowledge and authority. Additionally, due to the power to justify the knowledge
and power of health, even though the incumbent is not medically fit, a doctor
might recommend that the incumbent be healthy and fit to run in the election, yet
the public does not have the academic right to protest because the power of
knowledge is in the doctor. Thus, collaboration of various elements of knowledge
and power then supports power in general on behalf of the State, which in this
case the incumbent governor who is elected even by fraudulent means will use
this knowledge and power tool to keep his position.
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REFERENCES
Wikipedia. (n.d.). Power (social and political). Retrieved May 17, 2020 from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)