Abstract:
This research was aimed to described the semiotics sign on the pictures
and essay (captions) in the instagram account of Ridwan Kamil. The objectives of
this research were to find out the types of semiotic of each pictures in Ridwan
Kamil’s picture essay and describe the message conveyed in Ridwan Kamil’s
picture and essay. This research was applied descriptive qualitative method. The
source of the data was taken from Instagram account of Ridwan Kamil by
captured the pictures, it took fifteen pictures of Ridwan Kamil’s instagram
account to analyze the semiotic, which focussed to pictures and essay (captions)
that published on December 2016 until January 2017. The findings of this
research were found the types of semiotic signs, they were icon, index and symbol
on the pictures and captions in the instagram account of Ridwan Kamil. Every
pictures in the instagram account of Ridwan Kamil have different messages.
