Media Framing of Freight Transportation Policy during the Christmas 2025 and New Year 2026 Period
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Framing Analysis, Freight Transportation, Government Policy, Transportation, Christmas and New Year PeriodAbstract
The policy of restricting and regulating freight transportation during the Christmas and New Year (Nataru) period is a routine agenda of the Indonesian government to ensure safety, smooth traffic flow, and comfortable public mobility. However, this policy often sparks public debate because it is considered to have a direct impact on logistics activities, distribution of basic necessities, and economic performance. The mass media plays an important role in framing this policy, both as an effort to protect the public interest and as a policy that has the potential to cause harm to certain sectors. This study aims to analyze how national media frames freight transportation policies during the Christmas and New Year 2025 and 2026 periods. The research method used is qualitative with the Robert N. Entman framing analysis model approach, which includes problem definition, interpretation of causes, moral evaluation, and recommendations for solutions. Data were obtained from national online media coverage during the period of December 2025–January 2026. Using Entman's framing approach, it was found that coverage of freight transportation restrictions during the Nataru period showed differences in media perspectives in constructing the reality of public policy. Despite the differences, all reports showed convergence on selective and temporary solutions. This emphasizes the role of the media not only in framing conflicts of interest, but also in shaping the discourse of policy compromise between traffic safety and smooth logistics distributionReferences
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