Tetabuhan di Ladang Jagung Produksi Liputan Jurnalisme Sastrawi: Konflik Agraria di Surokonto Wetan, Kabupaten Kendal, Jawa Tengah

Abstract

Konflik agraria terus terjadi di berbagai daerah di Indonesia. Pada banyak kasus, para petani selalu menjadi korban, tidak mendapat hak hukum, digusur, dan dikriminalisasi. Di sisi lain, peran media massa sebagai corong informasi seringkali bias dan tak dapat mengawal isu konflik agaraia ini secara utuh. Kasus di Surokonto Wetan, Kabupaten Kendal adalah salah satunya. Sengkarut kepemilikan dan pengelolaan lahan di Surokonto Wetan memuncak pada 2017. Tiga orang petani dituduh membalak hutan dan vonis 8 tahun penjara serta denda 10 milyar rupiah. Penulis menarasikan kasus ini dengan pendekatan jurnalisme sastrawi agar isu ini kembali mendapat sorotan. Jurnalisme sastrawi dipakai karena strukturnya yang organik dan cair sehingga mudah diterima khalayak. Dari hasil liputan, penulis mendapati tiga poin penting dalam penulisan, yaitu kebaruan cerita, struktur tulisan yang ringan, serta penggunaan bahasa sehari-hari. Tiga poin tersebut menjadi alat utama yang menghidupkan narasi konflik agraria Surokonto Wetan berjudul “Tetabuhan di Ladang Jagung” ini.

Agrarian conflicts continue to occur in various regions in Indonesia. In many cases, farmers are always victims, have no legal rights, evicted and criminalized. On the other hand, the role of mass media as a mouthpiece of information is often biased and cannot cover the issue of agrarian conflict as a whole. The case in Surokonto Wetan, Kendal Regency is one of them. The disputes over ownership and management of land in Surokonto Wetan peaked in 2017. Three farmers were accused of forests ilegal logging and sentencing to eight years in prison and having to pay 10 billion rupiah. The author narrates this case with a literary journalism approach so that this issue gets the spotlight again. Literary journalism is used because the structure is organic and flexible so that it is easily accepted by the public. From the results of the coverage, the author found three important points in writing, namely the novelty of the story, the light structure of writing, and the use of everyday language. These three points become the main tools that bring to life the Surokonto Wetan agrarian conflict narrative entitled "The Noise on The Corn Fields".