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June 30, 2026Artistic StudiesOpen Access

Racial Discrimination, School Violence, and Intergenerational Trauma in Indonesian Cinema: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Pengepungan di Bukit Duri

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This research aims to analyze how racial discrimination, school violence, and intergenerational trauma are constructed in Indonesian cinema.
Qualitative approach using Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis
Analyzed Pengepungan di Bukit Duri across textual, discursive, and social practices
Used scenes, dialogues, visual compositions, and contextual production-reception data for analysis.
Identified four dominant discourses: racialized othering, normalized school-based violence, institutional failure, and intergenerational trauma.
Showed schools as sites of ideological reproduction within the discourse.
Highlighted audience reception extending the film’s discourse into public debate.

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Critical discourse analysis examines racial discrimination and school violence in Indonesia, suggesting the film challenges social norms.

Habibah et al. (2026) studied this question.

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