This study explores how The Jakarta Post, the largest English language newspaper in Indonesia, constructs the reality of Kenya mall attack and further leads into the framing of terrorism. The explicit purpose of the publication of The Jakarta Post per se is to provide an Indonesian perspective to counter the highly unbalanced Western-dominated global traffic of news and views, scrutinizing the context of Indonesia as the largest and most populous Muslim country in the world. Thus, Indonesia is expected to engender its own perspective to see and interpret terrorism issues. Considering this background, it becomes important to scrutinize that Indonesia media supposed to have different framing construction from what Western media attempt to depict terrorism, pertaining how news media play a significant role in the process of defining a global issue within the context of Muslim society. This research will be conducted under framing analysis by using Pan and Kosicki model. However, drawing upon the result of micro level (one-to-one), this study delves into conclusion that The Jakarta Post has portrayed Westgate mall siege in Kenya capital as terrorism and linked the attack to particular religious complicity by eliciting good guy vs. bad guys dichotomy and heroes vs. villains as the heart of current circulation of publicized news. The result indicates that the context of Indonesia as largest Muslim society in the world is distinctly at odds.
