SATIRICAL HUMOR AS CRITICS OF GOVERNMENT THROUGH EASTERN INDONESIAN STAND-UP COMEDIAN

In Indonesia, Stand-up Comedy has become the most popular form of community entertainment, resulting in emergence influential youth culture. a platform for comics to communicate political aspirations, worries, and criticisms. Three from Eastern Arie Kriting, Abdur, Mamat Alkatiri, have continuously presented material regarding socioeconomic disparity availability public services their native region. addition aforementioned concerns, education, emancipation, economic, technological issues are common discussion topics. Typically, Indonesian comic elements criticisms worries about inequality underdevelopment. Due presence some Comics East Indonesia who regularly expressed voiced unrest backwardness felt by people this issue became garnered widespread attention. This qualitative study analyzes utilization satire stand-up comedy content. utilized Barbara Swovelin (2019) concept Horatian Satire, Friedman's Menippean Satire (2019), Van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis approach. As result study, used sarcasm humorto express dissatisfaction with government.