MDGs dan Media Komunitas

Minggu lalu saya menghadiri Consultative Meeting yang diselenggarakan sama AMIC (Asian Media and Information Centre) di Rangsit University, Bangkok. Karena saya adalah periset dari Indonesia, saya harus presentasi hasil temuan saya bareng periset lain dari Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, India dan Srilanka. Inti dari risetnya adalah melihat kerjasama dari media komunitas dengan media mainstream dalam mempopulerkan MDGs.

Dari hasil riset saya, terbatas hanya di Jakarta dan sebagian Jawa, jelas nggak ketemu adanya kerjasama ini. Tidak ada sharing content antara media komunitas dengan media mainstream, yang ada adalah kerjasama antara LSM dengan media mainstream dan atau komunitas. Tentu ada kerjasama antara media mainstream dengan komunitas, tetapi bukan sharing content, terbatas pada isu capacity building dan advokasi.

Ayat-ayat Cinta, Memilih Monogami

Gara-gara nonton film Ayat-ayat Cinta dan melihat penggambaran poligami yang berlebihan, saya jadi merasa ‘panas’. Film itu seperti makin melegitimasi poligami walaupun juga menggambarkan bahwa proses poligami tidak lah pernah mudah.

Gara-gara rasa sebal itu, saya makin penasaran apa yang menyebabkan Islam, agama saya, memperbolehkan poligami.

my friends

Beberapa minggu lalu ketemuan sama teman-teman baik ku. Untungnya ada photographer, jadi bisa diabadikan. Trus, jadi keingat masa lalu dan menemukan kembali puisi yang mereka buat saat mereka mengucapkan selamat ulang tahun, tahun 1999. Yes, it’s almost nine years ago. I think I should put the poem here. Biar ter-arsip online.

For years, you’ve been here
Cry and laugh together …

The Important Network Affair is Happening in December

Same with two uploaded articles before, this is also one of the articles of my Master Project at Ateneo (2004). Not my favorite one, but it reminds me the passion we had at that time.

 

The Important Network Affair is Happening in December

(Third story)

by Shita Laksmi

 

 

In December 2004 was the first time Suman Basnet stepped in Indonesia. As the coordinator for Asia Pacific Region in the World Association for Community Broadcasters (or AMARC, in short), Basnet flew from Kathmandu to Jakarta. He spent two days in Jakarta and took a three hours train to Bandung. He has one agenda in Bandung: to attend the first national congress of the Indonesian Community Radio Network known locally as Jaringan Radio Komunitas Indonesia (JRKI).

Basnet could not hide his enthusiasm. Compared to other nations in the Asia Pacific, Indonesia was a leader in community radio because it was recognized by the law and many stations were already operating on the grassroots level. “This national congress would have a significant impact on the development of community radio,”¹ he said.

Frequency for the Voiceless

The same with previous uploaded article, this article was one of the stories for my Master Project (2004). Struggle to get a fair frequency allocation is still going on until now (end of 2007). You can take some of the parts of this article, but please, mention your source.

Frequency for the Voiceless
(second story)

by Shita Laksmi

 

Allocating radio frequencies is like dividing a chocolate bar. You can receive a half, a quarter or just whatever is left. This all depends on what the giver wants to do.

For example, a mother might divide a chocolate bar among three daughters by giving a half to the first child who is healthy because she was born in good times; from the remaining half, she gives three-fourth to the second and only one-fourth to the third, who is very thin because she was born in hard times.

Most people would judge such a mother unfair.

A similar lack of fairness is evident in the way Indonesia allocates frequencies for radio stations. With a limited range of frequencies, from 87 to 108 mHz on the FM band, allocations for private, public and community broadcasting stations are lopsided in favor of the first two.

Radio Waves for You

This article was one of the stories for my Master Project at Ateneo de Manila University (2004). We were asked to write a story which close to our heart. This is definitely close to mine. You can take some of the parts of this article, but please, mention your source.

Radio Waves for You
(first story)

by Shita Laksmi

On the small island of Saponda in East Indonesia, where electricity is on only from 6 p.m. to midnight and where there is no newspaper and very limited access to TV and radio programs, people yearn for information. To address this need, a group of fishermen, representing the island’s 1040 residents, unanimously decided that community radio would be the way to go. That is why a group of radio volunteers got together in January 2005 to discuss how they would build a better community radio station.

Saponda Island, no wider than a tenth of Changi International Airport in Singapore, already had some basic equipment. The station had been airing for more than six months using an Mp3 player, a transmitter, a microphone and an antenna. They do not use a computer because electricity is on for only six hours or even less each day.

Love

Where have you been?
More than ten years I have been looking for you

Though I could not see you in figure
You were in my day
Your calling was my password
My code to access my computer
My key to open my email
My access point to enter my dream

Inspirasi dari Kendari

Judul diatas mungkin terasa klise, tapi saya benar-benar merasa banyak mendapat pengalaman dan pengetahuan ketika hadir di Kendari sebagai panelis seminar nasional yang berjudul Penyiaran, Masyarakat Lokal, dan Perubahan Sosial tanggal 10 Juli 2007. Seminar ini diselenggarakan kerjasama banyak pihak, diantaranya adalah Aliansi Jurnalis Independen, Universitas Halu Oleo, WWF, Lestari dan Yayasan Bahari.

Dua panelis lain adalah Imam Prakoso dari Combine Resources Institution dan Errol Jonathans dari Suara Surabaya. Pesertanya mayoritas berasal dari praktisi penyiaran –swasta maupun komunitas, mahasiswa dan beberapa orang dari lembaga negara yang terkait penyiaran seperti Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia-Daerah serta Balai Monitoring.

Penyiaran dan Perubahan Sosial

Minggu ini (2nd week of July), saya diundang oleh rekan-rekan dari Yayasan Bahari untuk ikut bicara soal penyiaran komunitas di Kendari. Saya akan bicara dengan Imam Prakoso dari Combine Resource Institution dam Errol Jonathans dari Suara Surabaya.

Attached adalah presentasi saya di sana nanti. Kalau ada input, silakan ya. Terus terang untuk menuliskan mempersiapkan ini saya musti baca-baca dokumen pas jaman kuliah di Ateneo tentang Media and Politics.

penyiaran-dan-perubahan-sosial.ppt

More on “Blood on Their Hands”

 I found an interesting article on ACFJ (Ateneo Centre for Journalism) regarding “our” book.

 You could read more information through: http://acfj.ateneo.edu/news/0607_book_blood.htm