<![CDATA[Violence against women (VAW) remains a global and structural problem; in Indonesia, gender-based violence cases reached their highest level in a decade in 2025. As institutions that construct social reality, online news media play a decisive role in shaping how the public understands such violence. This study examines how two of Indonesia's most-read online portals, Kompas.com and Tribunnews.com, framed the stabbing of a female student at UIN Suska Riau (February to March 2026), a case classified by the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) as gender-based violence and attempted femicide. Using Pan and Kosicki's framing model, this qualitative-descriptive study analyses nineteen news texts (twelve from Tribunnews.com and seven from Kompas.com) across syntactic, script, thematic, and rhetorical structures. The findings reveal two opposing frames produced under a single media conglomerate: Kompas.com constructs the case as a campus security and lawenforcement matter, whereas Tribunnews.com constructs it as a crime of passion driven by the victim's morality, reproducing victim blaming through four mechanisms. Interpreted together, both frames converge in erasing the structural-gender dimension of the violence, overtly through victim blaming and covertly through neutral institutionalisation. This convergence is driven by the political economy of media, in which a patriarchal and religiously inflected common sense becomes a marketable commodity. The findings confirm existing international literature while enriching it by demonstrating segmentation-driven divergence within one conglomerate, depoliticisation without blaming, and the religious idiom as a distinctively local mechanism. The study recommends strengthening media literacy and the implementation of gender-sensitive reporting guidelines.]]>
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