enulisan ini bertujuan untuk meneliti seruan freedom of speech dalam puisi berjudul Ikhtiyar karya Azzedine Mihoubi yang merupakan seorang penyair dan mantan menteri Kebudayaan Aljazair tahun 2015-2019. Puisi digunakan sebagai media menyampaikan pendapat para demonstran sebagai salah satu bentuk kebebasan pendapat. Akan tetapi seorang demonstran di Aljazair ditangkap sebagai tahanan politik setelah membacakan puisinya yang berisi kritik kepada pemerintah. Melihat peristiwa penangkapan tersebut, puisi Ikhtiyar menjadi menarik untuk diteliti. Karena puisi tersebut dibuat oleh seorang penyair yang pernah menjabat di pemerintahan. Pemerintahan pada umumnya sering menerima krtik dari rakyatnya sebagai bentuk kebebasan berpendapat dan Mihoubi menunjukan dukungan atas kebebasan berpendapat melalui puisi Ikhtiyar. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode pendekatan kualitatif dan deskriptif berdasarkan teori retorika Arab atau balagah dan teori isotopi. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa teori balagah dan teori isotopi merupakan teori yang tepat untuk melihat seruan dan tema freedom of speech dalam puisi Ikhtiyar. Dalam puisi ini ditemukan banyak seruan freedom of speech yang ditujukan kepada rakyat Aljazair. Selain ditemukan tema freedom of speech, puisi ini juga terdapat sub-tema perjuangan, persaudaraan setanah air dan musuh negara.

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This research aims to examine the invocation of the freedom of speech within Azzedine's poem entitled “Ikhtiyar”, written by Mihoubi Azzedine, who is a poet and a former Minister of Culture of Algeria from 2015-2019. Poetry is utilized as a medium to convey the opinion of demonstrators as a form of a freedom of speech. However, a protester in Algeria was arrested as a political prisoner after reading out loud his poetry which embodied criticism towards the government. Considering the arrest incident, the poetry of Ikhtiyar has become intriguing to research due the fact that the poem was composed by a poet who had served in the government. In general, the government often receives criticism from its people as a form of free-speech. On that ground, Mihoubi emphasized his support towards the civil-liberty through the Ikhtiyar poetry. This research was conducted with a qualitative and descriptive approach based on the Arabic rhetoric theory or balagah and the isotopic theory. Within the research, it is found that the balagah theory and the isotopic theory are suitable to examine the exclamation and the theme of freedom of speech in the Ikhtiyar poetry. Within this poem, it has discovered that there are many calls for the free-speech addressed to the Algerian people. Along the freedom of speech, this poem also encloses several sub-themes of struggles, compatriots, and enemies of the state.