Claiming Social Justice for Pekalongan Flood and Landslide Victims in the Online Media

Reporting on flood disasters is not just about providing information to the public, the media is also socially responsible for voicing the interests of victims of natural disasters. This article exposes how the online media BBC Indonesia and Liputan 6 questioned the government as a form of interpellation of responsibility for social injustice to disaster victims. The method uses Fairclough's critical discourse analysis. The main objective is how the discourse of social justice for disaster victims is built by the media and how power and government ideology play a role in it. The event that became the context of the research was the Pekalongan flash flood and landslide disaster in Central Java at the end of January 2025. The results found that the BBC and Liputan 6 media revealed the issue of social justice for disaster victims reported as something to fulfill the right to rehabilitation and reconstruction by applicable legal regulations. However, the principle of social justice in general, Liputan 6 is more questioning the issue of ecological injustice as a social wrong and implies a confirmation of the routine and cycle of disaster management.