Indonesia dan Malaysia adalah negara tetangga yang memiliki potensi kerja sama maupun potensi konflik yang yang sama besar dalam aspek sosial, budaya, ekonomi, politik, pertahanan, dan keamanan. Penelitian ini mengkaji tiga potensi konflik menurut Kraus dan Morsella, yaitu misperception, misunderstanding, dan misconstruction. Ketiga potensi konflik tersebut diamati dari teks di media sosial. Teks bagi pemuda pada umumnya berupa emotion, teks yang tidak teratur, penggunaan huruf kapital dan kecil dalam kalimat, kode-kode, simbol, dan tanda. Untuk memperkuat pemahaman terkait misperception, misunderstanding, dan misconstruction pada pesan teks di media baru dan media sosial perlu dipahami konsep media sebagai mediasi dan meditasi. Tulisan ini akan membahas pesan positif, negatif, dan netral dari generasi muda di media sosial seperti facebook, twitter , youtube, dan media blog terkait hubungan Indonesia dan Malaysia.

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Indonesia and Malaysia were neighbouring countries which had potential cooperation both conflict aspect and other aspects such as social, culture, economy, defense and safety. This study observed three potential conflict by Kraus and Morsella, they were misperception, misunderstanding, and misconstruction. The three potential conflict observed the text from social media. Accordingnto youth thentext was emotion, irregular text, using capital and small letters in sentece, codes, symbol, and sign. For strengthen understanding related to misperception, misunderstanding, and misconstruction of the text in social media and new media need to be understood concept of media as mediation and meditation. This writing would be discuss positive, negative, and netral message of text from youth in social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Media blog engaged to Indonesia and Malaysia relation.