This study analyzes President Prabowo's speech acts in an interview with six journalists and editors-in-chief on the program "Presiden Prabowo Answers" on Najwa Shihab's YouTube channel. Using a pragmatic approach and qualitative descriptive methods, this study identifies three types of speech acts: locution, illocution, and perlocution. The results show that Prabowo not only conveys information, but also inserts certain intentions and shapes public perception through a strategic speech style. This finding confirms that language in political communication plays an important role in building an image and influencing the audience.
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