This article aims to explain the challenges of journalism education in Indonesia on the issue of mainstreaming climate change. As the world's largest archipelago, Indonesia has to deal with some climate change impacts such as rising sea levels, extreme weather, floods, drought, and forest fires. Climate change is a real serious threat, but public awareness of this issue is low in Indonesia. Mass media have a capacity to mainstream climate change and increase public awareness. The data for this article has been collected through qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles, interviews with communication lecturers and scholars, and document reviews. Some of the important findings are: 1) The climate change issue in the Indonesian mass media is less popular than other issues such as corruption, elections, terrorism and refugees; 2) Journalism education in Indonesia does not contribute enough to mainstreaming climate change on mass media; 3) There are three levels of problem in macro, messo, and micro level of journalism education in Indonesia to mainstreaming climate change issue. At a micro level, the problem is related to the lack of lecturers with competence in climate change. On a messo level, journalism education has failed to connect with the problem of climate change through curricula. At a macro level, the problem is related to the popularity of journalism. Systemic theory by Niklas Luhmann was used as tool to analyse these problems. From this perspective, Indonesian journalism education as a system faces plenty of challenges to reduce the complexity of problems to optimise its role in mainstreaming climate change.
PT Pertamina (Persero) Sungai Pakning Refinery Unit II as one of Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas companies has contributed to the empowerment of communities around its operational areas through the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scheme. In carrying out CSR programs, the company pays attention to the social relations of the target communities. This study focuses on analyzing the forms of social relations of the CSR target communities and their impacts on the implementation of CSR programs of PT Pertamina (Persero) Refinery Unit II Sungai Pakning. Social relations in this study are defined into three forms of relations, namely bonding, bridging and linking, each of which has different impacts on the social conditions of the beneficiary communities. This research is based on qualitative approach, conducted in three target communities in different areas within Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province, namely Sungai Pakning Village, Sungai Selari Village, and Pangkalan Jambi Village, during the period of 2017-2018. The data were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and documentations. The study finds various forms of social relations. Bonding relations show that intra-group bonds are important to maintain group cohesiveness. Bridging relations show that ties between groups need to be developed in order to connect each others and work together. While the linking relationships show that there is a good impact for groups that have closer relationships with the higher power institutions. These results indicate that the forms of social relations have important impacts on the implementation of CSR programs and need to be maintained through participatory communication activities in order to create sustainable social relations. This study also finds that good social relations will be strong support to raise community awareness and participation in practicing sustainable environmental management.
Penelitian ini beranjak dari terbatasnya kajian CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) pada masyarakat penerima manfaat di Indonesia. Teori yang diadaptasi dalam penelitian ini adalah teori modal sosial oleh Woolcock & Narayan. Metode penelitian dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif interpretif model Neuman. Penelitian ini menelaah bentuk-bentuk modal sosial dalam berbagai bentuk relasi sosial. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat beragam bentuk relasi sosial yang ada di masyarakat, yaitu bonding, bridging dan linking. Relasi bonding menunjukkan bahwa ikatan intra kelompok penting untuk diperhatikan guna menjaga kekompakan kelompok. Relasi bridging menunjukkan bahwa ikatan antar kelompok perlu dibangun guna terjalin kerja sama antara kelompok binaan dengan kelompok binaan lain. Sedangkan relasi linking menunjukkan bahwa adanya dampak yang baik bagi kelompok-kelompok yang memiliki kedekatan hubungan dengan lembaga kekuasaan yang lebih tinggi. Hasil ini menunjukkan bahwa ketiga bentuk relasi sosial memiliki dampak terhadap pelaksanaan CSR di suatu perusahaan. Relasi ini penting untuk dijaga melalui kegiatan komunikasi yang bertujuan untuk pembangunan yang dilakukan melalui cara-cara yang lebih intensif, terbuka dan partisipatif guna melahirkan relasi sosial yang sehat dan berkelanjutan.
Ecological issues pose a serious threat to the continued existence of contemporary society. The recent development of humanity as an information society has been unable to overcome ecological issues; indeed, they have become more complex. Rapid advances in information and communication technology have fundamentally transformed various dimensions of human life. At the same time, ecological problems have been complicated by increasingly intense disasters, limited awareness of environmental degradation, as well as the increasingly apparent threat of global warming and climate change. Niklas Luhmann, a German sociologist, offered ecological communication as a conceptual framework for understanding the ecological problems faced by modern society. Through his system theory and concept of resonance, Luhmann sought to explain how modern society, as a complex social system, responds to ecological issues. This article seeks to explore in detail the ecological communication framework developed by Luhmann and use it to understand the ecological issues facing today's information society, especially in Indonesia. The main method used by this research is exploration and explication of the principles of Luhmann's theory, which are implemented to analyze various ecological issues and natural disasters in Indonesia. This research involved the collection of materials on ecological communication from Luhmann's books, as well as the linking of these materials to the ecological problems faced by information society.
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