This study investigates President Jokowi’s ideological stance behind his political speech delivered firstly in the occasion of the Indonesian Independence Day. Besides, this paper also identifies the reason of Jokowi to prioritize the people of Indonesia as the main concern in his program. Data were collected from the first official speech text of the President Jokowi delivered in the August 16th, 2015. By using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper also utilizes Appraisal Analysis (AA) within Attitudinal systems in the discoursesemantic appraisal mode within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The paper resulted that Judgement of the sub-type of the attitudinal category rather than the two others; Affect and Appreciation.