Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract this study, entitled students’ opinion on serambi indonesia daily news about 15 gayo arts which do not include in fifth aceh culture festival in 2013 (a study on gayonese students in syiah kuala university banda aceh). this study aims to find out the opinion from gayonese students who study in syiah kuala university banda aceh. they have to give their opinion toward serambi indonesia daily news which topic is about 15 gayo arts which are not involved in the fifth aceh culture festival in 2013. the method used in this study is a qualitative, and the data collection technique is done by doing a forum group discussion (fgd) to ten informants who have been representing gayonese students in syiah kuala university banda aceh. the results of the research that has been conducted shows that the serambi indonesia daily news with topic 15 gayo arts do not include in fifth aceh culture festival in 2013 is some informants could receive the news. they deliver different opinions that are able to attract the attention of all the informants who were divided into two group discussions. the different opinions are caused by the understanding concept of the each informant towards the news. there are informants who have a good understanding on the news and some bad. in addition, this news has created negative effects on gayonese people, where people feel their dignity is downgraded and they feel insulted due to the absence of 15 gayo arts performance in fifth aceh culture festival in 2013. the 15 gayo arts which are not comprised in fifth aceh culture festival are the house traditional ceremony, wedding traditional ceremony, circumcision traditional ceremony, case traditional ceremony, rowboat, musical creations, traditional music, vocal art, traditional clothing show, new creation dance, guel dance, munalo dance, ingrang, elephant game, and geutayang tunong. keywords: opinion, serambi daily news, gayonese students