Some studies have discussed digital activism and politics in Indonesia. However, studies investigating the phenomenon of Indonesian feminist activism on social media have yet to be conducted. On the other hand, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and also other online platforms have become a fertile site for the public to aspire their views and mobilize people for some causes, including social media accounts voicing feminist perspectives in Indonesian online sphere. This study uncovers the actors behind and goals of feminism activists who create accounts on social media such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The method of the study is snow-ball interviews, content analyses of Instagram posts, and close observation on public activities of the important figures within the movement on their social media account, as well as their writings. This study found that Indonesian digital feminism activists have started with the agencies of the young women of Indonesia in the circle of senior feminists in Jakarta, as well as feminist emerging from the Islamist network. Basic literacy and digital literacy have facilitated the activists with capability to articulate and share their ideas. Eventually, the activists initiate the movement on social media which functions as a means of creating digital safe place, sharing personal stories, providing online discussion forum, promoting marches and offline discussion events, responding to criticisms and oppositional standpoints, as well as conducting and publishing research. AbstrakSejumlah kajian telah mendiskusikan tentang aktivisme digital dan politik di Indonesia. Akan tetapi, kajian yang mencermati fenomena aktivisme feminis Indonesia pada situs jejaring sosial masih terbatas. Padahal, Facebook, YouTube dan Instagram, juga platform online lainnya telah menjadi ladang subur bagi tumbuhnya pandangan dan upaya mobilisasi warga untuk sejumlah sebab, termasuk sejumlah akun media sosial yang menyuarakan perspektif feminis pada ranah online Indonesia. Kajian ini mengungkap jejaring aktor dan tujuan bersama para aktivis feminis yang menciptakan akun-akun pada situs jejaring sosial seperti Facebook, Instagram dan YouTube. Metode studi ini adalah wawancara snow-ball, analisis isi unggahan-unggahan di Instagram, dan pengamatan lekat aktivitas publik yang dilakukan oleh figur-figur penting pada media sosial mereka, berikut karya-karya tulisan mereka. Kajian ini menemukan bahwa aktivisme feminis digital Indonesia bermula dari agensi para wanita muda Indonesia dalam lingkungan feminis senior di Jakarta, maupun tumbuh dari jejaring gerakan Islam. Literasi dasar dan literasi digital memfasilitasi para aktivis tersebut dengan kemampuan untuk mengartikulasikan dan berbagi ide-ide mereka. Pada akhirnya, para aktivis menginisiasi gerakan pada sosial media yang berfungsi untuk menjadi ruang 105 aman digital, berbagi kisah-kisah pribadi, menyediakan forum diskusi online, mengajak turun ke jalan dan acaraacara diskusi offline, merespon pandangan kritis dan oposisional terhadap gerakan mereka, menyelenggarak...
In April 2019, Jakarta-based UNESCO with two lecturers from the Department of Communication Science at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) and one researcher at PR2Media prepared a plan to hold multimedia journalism training workshops at the Department of Social Communication (DSC) of the Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL) in Timor-Leste (East Timor). This article describes the current aspirations of the trainees related to their future media and journalism career in East Timor as well as the reflective evaluations of the Indonesian trainers on the training complemented with students’ pre-test and post-test survey on multimedia journalism knowledge and skills. Participants on the multimedia journalism training carried out in July-August 2019 were adept with the required technological skills. Their biggest challenges came from basic language and journalism skills, such writing in good Tetum, Portuguese, Indonesian or English (in East Timor, Tetum and Portuguese are the official languages, while Indonesian and English were designated as ‘working’ languages), covering the stories, and presenting the stories in a journalistic style. Despite these challenges, they were finally able to produce basic multimedia stories with a local perspective on the designated news site.
Some studies, with regards to the salience of digital disinformation, have focused on investigating the tendency to believe disinformation by looking at a single cluster of factors. This study reveals factors ranging from multiple clusters, such as socioeconomic status, political partisanship, diversity of media exposure, trust in the media, and the digital fluency of the voters. The Gubernatorial Election of DKI Jakarta during 2016-2017 provided a context for examining the correlation between these factors and the (dis)-belief of digital political disinformation among the voters. In the election, the incumbent governor, Basuki Tjahja Purnama, was falsely accused of being a communist, which is still a dirty word in Indonesia, by his opponent. A survey was conducted for this research, collecting completed questionnaires from 191 citizens of DKI Jakarta who had voting rights and could access the online and digital disinformation. The null hypothesis was that socioeconomic status, political partisanship, diversity of media exposure, trust in the media and digital fluency did not influence the citizens’ perceptions towards digital political information. However, the regression analysis found that the null hypothesis should be rejected. Of those predictors, political partisanship had the highest significant correlation with those perceptions.
This study investigates factors that dampens the Indonesian journalists' freedom and safety in the Post-Soeharto's New Order. To address this research objective, relevant journal articles have been scrutinized. And the in-depth interview data have been derived from the interviews of a former member of the Indonesian Press Council and four journalists who served four prominent Indonesian mainstream media including TEMPO, the Jakarta Post, Metro TV and CNN Indonesia. These data have been analysed using the qualitative and thematic analysis.
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