THE PROMOTION OF US CAMPAIGN OF WAR ON TERRORISM IN INDONESIA THROUGH HOLLYWOOD ACTION AND WAR FILMS: A CASE STUDY OF INDONESIA - US BILATERAL RELATIONS (2006-2013)

Abstract

The United States film industry, or generally known as Hollywood, is considered as having a massive influence towards the creation of global public opinion because of their film products which globally prevail with an abundant amounts and have becoming the global public standard of entertainment, especially in Indonesia. The ample numbers of terrorism-theme and also explicit depiction regarding terrorism issues in Hollywood action and war films has making the writer interested to conduct a research on how these films promote US campaign in war on terrorism in Indonesia. In doing this study, the writer applied public diplomacy theory as theoretical framework. The writer studied Hollywood, Indonesia, US, and terrorism related case which happened in 2006-2013 as the scope and limitations of study. Based on the result of this study, it can be stated that Hollywood has fine role and contribution in shaping the opinion of Indonesian public by depicting ruthlessness, psychopathy, and savagery of terrorists in doing their action-which cannot be justified by any reasons-in Hollywood action and war films distributed to Indonesia. There is also some founding on the implication of Indonesian public dependencies towards Hollywood films and also Indonesian government policy which support the distribution and even the production of Hollywood films in Indonesia. This study is significant to the students of International Relations study program, especially for those who are interested or also doing researches in regards to public diplomacy, culture diplomacy, Hollywood, and/or terrorism.