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Political news in the media are in favors more for male politicians rather than female politicians. This study aims to determine to know how the media frame the action of female politician in Pre-Election 2019 in Indonesia from kompas.com. The theory used is, Female Political Culture, Political Communication and Women Political Action, Representation and Media Coverage of Female Politicians, New Media Theory and Hierarchy in media influence theory. This study used constructivist paradigm, with qualitative method, and framing analysis, Robert N. Entman. The analysis consist of three samples from kompas.com political news of Female Politicians Action in July to December 2018. The result is quantity of female politician news in kompas.com are based on patriarchal ideology. News theme and visual support are more multi-perspective, not women themed only. Capabilities of female politicians in the news and in the political field, as to answer the problems of the news. Headlines directly describe the content of the news. Sentences that are used is simple, clear, without the addition of feminize women. Moral values, and solutions are provided by interviewees, revealing the fact that political women also have a good ability in seeing standpoint of a problem. This indicates female politicians keep following the updates of the latest technology and media, also be sensitive to the problems that occurred. Recommendations from previous study tells that media sees female politicians as the second choice, and prefer male politicians. News text analysis and its theme, tends to accentuate the feminism side of Female politicians.