Politics and the Media in Twenty-First Century Indonesia: Decade of Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780415476522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str.

David Hill;Krishna Sen

Opis

This book examines the media in the post-authoritarian politics of 21^st century Indonesia. It addresses two important and related questions: How is the media being transformed, both in terms of its structure and content, by the changing political economy of Indonesia after the fall of Soeharto? What is the potential impact of this media in enabling or hampering the development of democracy in Indonesia? Whilst recognising the impact of the fall of Soeharto and the New Order regime, this book shows that many of the factors influencing developments in politics and the media were global and would have had an impact upon Indonesia irrespective of the government in power. Specifically, it explores the role of ethnic identity and nationalism; increasingly cheaper and diversified means of media production, challenging state monopolies of the media; the reality of a simultaneously personalised and globalised media; and the challenging of the formerly paradigmatic connection between a free media and democracy by global capitalism and corporate control of the media. It explores the impact of these developments on Indonesia’s politics and media, arguing that the dominant forces transforming Indonesia today did not arise from the singular point of Sueharto’s resignation, but from a set of factors that are autonomous from, yet interlace with, Indonesia’s internal politics, to shape its cultural industries.

Spis treści

1. Reorganisation of Media Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Ownership, Power and Influence of Local Media Entrepreneurs  2. On the Border: Local Media in the Land of Papua  3. Community Radio and the Empowerment of Local Culture in Indonesia  4. Riding Waves of Change: Islamic Press in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia  5. Indonesian Journalism Post-Suharto: Changing Ideals and Professional Practices  6. Ownership and its Impact on Journalists and Their Practices  7. The Transformation of the Media Scene: From War to Peace in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia  8. "Radio Active": The Creation of Media-Literate Audiences in Post-Suharto Indonesia  9. The Construction of Women in Contemporary Indonesian Women’s Cinema  10. Media and Morality: Pornography Post Suharto

O autorze

Krishna Sen is Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, Perth and Fellow of The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her most recent publications include (as co-editor) Political Regimes and the Media in Asia and (co-authored with David T. Hill) The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy (both published by Routledge).

David T. Hill is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Fellow of the Asia Research Centre on Social, Political and Economic Change at Murdoch University, Western Australia. His publications include The Press in New Order Indonesia, Journalism and Politics in Indonesia: A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as Editor and Author and (co-authored with Krishna Sen) Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia.