Partnering Community and Mainstream Media for MDGs

Riset ini dilakukan sudah cukup lama –awal tahun lalu (2008). Karena blog ini dimaksudkan untuk arsip online, saya letakkan disini executive summary riset yang saya kerjakan. Informasi selanjutnya bisa didapat di: http://www.amic.org.sg/pdf/Partnering_Community.pdf.

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Indonesia
(Researcher: Shita Laksmi)

The researcher found it difficult to identify projects where community based media contents are disseminated via the mainstream media. Thus, an ethnographic research strategy was adopted wheere carefully selected NGO and media representatives were interviewed to assess the situation.

Through such interviews a number of projects have been documented in the report. One of which is a project implemented by the Institute for Ecosoc Rights in collaboration with one of the leading independent newspapers in the country the Kompas newspaper. This project focuses on migrant labourers, malnutrition and hunger, and urban poor.

AMIC – Asian Publishing Awards …

In the spirit of archiving online –tidak terkait sama narsis, ya mungkin ada, sedikit– buku terbitan AMIC yang berjudul “Media Pluralism in Asia: The Role and Impact of Alternative Media” menang di Asian Publishing Awards di tema “Best Book Published about Media Industry in Asia”. Info lanjutan bisa dilihat di web AMIC .

Masih in the spirit of archieving online, kebetulan saya dan Ignatius Haryanto adalah salah satu penulis di buku itu. Yihaaaaaaa…. ternyata ada hasilnya juga those temporary insanity period.

Congratulations buat Kalinga, editor kita yang sangat sabar walaupun kita harus molor deadline beberapa kali.

Ciao dulu ya …

Mati Angin

Saya lagi mati angin hari ini. Tahu sih, nggak ada hubungannya dengan materi di blog ini tapi bener-bener relevan dengan saya saat ini.

Mati angin = brain dead
Mati angin = malas banget
Mati angin = bisa aja maksudnya deadlock
Mati angin = there’s no room for discussion
Mati angin = tidak sama dengan masuk angin

Bener-bener mati angin …

HIV/AIDS and the International Conference …

aids 2008

What have I learned from this conference? Konferensi AIDS Internasional yang sudah menghabiskan banyak sekali dana, termasuk empat hari waktu saya hanya untuk perjalanan, untuk menunggu di airport, mandi di toilet umum dan makan makanan dingin di pesawat?

Bahwa HIV/AIDS adalah epidemic yang sangat kompleks. Baik dari sisi klinis, dari sisi non klinis (stigma dan diskriminasi, cultural, hak asasi manusia, pilihan seksualitas) dan dari sisi prevention, care, support and treatment.

ladies from mexico

Informasi dan knowledge yang ada di konferensi ini overwhelming buat saya –yang background HIV/AIDS nya minim. Saya merasa perlu waktu untuk mengunyah apa yang saya dapat di konferensi ini sebelum akhirnya bisa berpengaruh pada saya secara professional. However, there are some points that struck me most, such as…

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.