Bingkai Media Terhadap Hubungan Bilateral Indonesia-Malaysia

The relations between Indonesia and Malaysia are always full of colors. Indonesia and Malaysia are assumed as neighbour since it has similar history, religion also socio culturally. Some decades show that the declination of relationship the both countries. Another time, as ASEAN members the two countries devotes their nationalities to purify their collective identities as Eastern. The objective of the research is to extricate the construction of Kompas online toward news coverage of the borders dispute between Indonesia-Malaysia in 2010. This research is proposed to examine central issues which reported by Kompas online consistently. As a media industry, Kompas coverage dominates circulation nationally. Kompas.com was the pioneer of online news in Indonesia and born in reformation era. The method used in this research is framing method by Robert N. Entman’s which consists of four steps identification : defining problem, diagnosing causes, moral judgement and a treatment recommendation. This research found that Kompas news covered the border dispute must be negotiated as recognation of Indonesia dignity.