Politik Cerpen dan Cerpen Politik:

Sebuah Kesaksian atas Saksi Mata*

Cahyaningrum Dewajati

Jurusan Sastra Indonesia

Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Gadjah Mada

Yogyakarta

Abstract

This article dissects the image projection found in the compilation of short stories Saksi Mata by Seno Gumira Ajidarma. The analysis uses postmodernism approach using Baudrilard simulacrum perspective. The result of the analysis describes that “the politic of short story” is Seno’s strategy to share out his anxiety and concern which mass media cannot accommodate. To overcome this Seno articulates them to his readers through short stories. The compilation of his short stories is dominated by his deep contemplation on many political harassment occurred in Indonesia. To him the situation was so outrageous. His witness and experience as a journalist facing the political brutality are portrayed as wild and harsh image in his short story. Reciprocal relation between himself as a journalist whose freedom in exposing the truth is banned then finds a way out on the hilarious simulacra that means “more true than the truth” and “more real than the reality”.

Key words: short story politic, political short story, postmodern, simulacrum