ANALISIS KONTRASTIF PANDANGAN MAHASISWA PENUTUR BAHASA INDONESIA DAN MAHASISWA PENUTUR BAHASA JEPANG TERHADAP PRIVASI DALAM KOMUNIKASI: SEBUAH TINJAUAN SOSIOLINGUISTIK (CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF INDONESIAN-SPEAKING STUDENTS' AND JAPANESE-SPEAKING STUDENTS' VIEWS ON PRIVACY IN COMMUNICATION: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC REVIEW)

The different perspectives on privacy between college students who speak Indonesian and those who speak Japanese as their native language may create some misunderstandings when they interact with each other. To avoid such misunderstandings, more studies on privacy in communication are needed. Meanwhile studies on the field are still scarce. Therefore, to fill the gap, this study aims at finding out the similarities and differences on topics that are considered as privacy by students who speak Indonesian language and Japanese language. Additionally, this study also revealed to which interlocutors they may be comfortable to open up talking about topics considered as their privacy and how they respond towards interlocutors who bring up such topics. To collect the data, a questionnaire on privacy was distributed to 127 participants in Indonesia and 107 participants in Japan. Respondents from both countries were college students who were native speakers of the language spoken in their countries, Japan and Indonesia. The data collected then were analyzed by employing contrastive analysis. The study indicated that Indonesian students were more open in comparison to Japanese students as indicated by the breadth of their preferred conversation topics with strangers. Additionally, when opening up to topics considered as private topics, Japanese students were simultaneously evaluating whether they had trusted relationship with the interlocutors throughout the interaction. On the other hand, instead of simultaneously evaluating the relationship, Indonesian students tended to decide whether they had the trusted relationship first before they proceeded to opening up about their privacy with their interlocutors.