Politeness Strategies of Karni Ilyas About Ruu Hip in Indonesia Lawyer Club on Tv One: Benarkah Melumpuhkan Pancasila?

This research aims to expose how Karni Ilyas, the host of ILC, used politeness strategy through faces in communicating with political experts in ILC show episode RUU HIP: Benarkah Melumpuhkan Pancasila?. This research uses Brown’s and Levinson’s theory of Politeness Strategies. This research is qualitative research; the approach is thematic analysis, the data are fragmentations of Karni Ilyas’ utterances, and the data collection technique is documentation while the technique of data analysis is interpretation. This research exposes a result that Karni Ilyas used politeness strategies in hosting or moderating the show, but he used negative face to speak with speakers he has no intimate bond (in this case, they are Achmad Basarah, Aboebakar Al Habsyi, and Ali Mochtar Ngabalin) and he used positive face to speak with speaker he has familiar connection (in this case, it was Fadli Zon). Karni Ilyas used politeness strategies as a host or moderator in handling the political discussion in the ILC Show of the episode.