Media, Politics, and Social Change in Contemporary Indonesia

Session Submission Type: Organized Panel Proposal Application

Abstract

This panel will discuss about the current states of media in Indonesia and how it reflects the socio-political changes in the region. It elaborates three main changes in media orientation in depicting Chinese Indonesian minority and marginalized groups in film, Islam as the majority religion on television, and negotiation of power relations in a newspaper owned by a member of minority group. Democratisation and globalization which take place due to the fall of authoritarian regime have redefined competing identities and ideologies and the boundaries of minorities in Indonesian public sphere which involve Islam, Chinese Indonesian, nationalism.

Area of Study

• Southeast Asia

Session Organizer

• Syahril Siddik, Leiden University

Individual Presentations

• Trivial Representations of Chinese Indonesians in Cinema Post-Suharto - Julia Julia, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies

• Formulating the Kompas Way: Content Analysis on the Jubilee’s Special Edition of the Most Influential Daily Newspaper in Indonesia - Wijayanto Wijayanto, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies

• Recruiting and Branding The Making of Television Dai in Contemporary Indonesia - Syahril Siddik, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies