MASCULINITY AND CORRUPTION IN MINIATURE: A STUDY OF PENTIGRAF

Pentigraf is a three-paragraph short storyproduced by a creative writing community called Kampung Pentigraf Indonesia (the Indonesian Pentigraf Village or KPI). By composingPentigraf, the authorscan articulatethe social phenomenasuch ascorruptionwith greater clarity.Since the 1970s,corruption has become a problem in Indonesia. KPI published a Pentigraf anthology entitled Hanya Nol Koma Satu(Only Zero Point One) in 2020 to express concerns about corruption. KPI has more than 3,000 members on Facebookfromdiverse backgrounds, including female homemakers,who, in this anthology, discussmasculine dominance themes connected to corruption. This study shows how masculine norms and gendered perspectives contribute to the perpetuation of corruption, as articulated through Pentigraf, written by female homemakers. This study gathered the data fromfifteen Pentigrafswritten by female homemakers. EmployingBourdieu’s theory of masculine domination, this document analysis analyzes the intrinsic structure of pentigrafby homemakers in Hanya Nol Koma Satuto deconstruct how masculine standards correlate with textual representations of corruption.The results show that male characters in the Pentigrafshave the personalitiesof being desirous and indifferent to the suffering of others because they cling to wealth achievement and supremacy. Pentigraf is a mini-fiction that is not asy to analyzedeeply. Nevertheless, it canarticulate moral teachings andcapture social phenomena.