Journalism and conflict in Indonesia : from reporting violence to promoting peace
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Journalism and conflict in Indonesia : from reporting violence to promoting peace
（RoutledgeCurzon contemporary Southeast Asia series, 53）
Routledge, 2013
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Bibliography: p. [229]-252
Includes index
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Description
This book examines, through the case study of Indonesia over recent decades, how the reporting of violence can drive the escalation of violence, and how journalists can alter their reporting practices in order to have the opposite effect and promote peace. It discusses the nature of press freedom in Indonesia from 1966 onwards, considers the relationship between the press and politicians, and explores journalists' working methods. It goes on to outline in detail the communal wars in eastern Indonesia in the period 1999-2000, arguing that communication as much as physical preparations for violence were key to bringing about the wars, with journalists' rigid professional routines and newswriting conventions causing them to reproduce and enlarge the battle cries of those at war. The book concludes by advocating a "development communication" approach to journalism in transitional settings, in order to help journalists to counter the disintegrative tendencies of failing states and the communal strife that can result.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Communication and Culture 3. Media Freedom and Journalistic Culture in Post-New Order Indonesia 4. Violence, Culture and National Disintegration in Indonesia 5. Culture Wars in Indonesia: Maluku 6. Framing Religious Conflict: Primordialism Writ Large 7. War and Peace Journalism
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