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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>INDONESIA STUDY GROUP</span></i></b><b><i><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>N.B. Different Day & Venue<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Thursday, 1 November, 12.30 – 2.00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Seminar Room </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Melani Budianta</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> (Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia)<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>People's Voices: Media, Popular Culture and Democratization Process in Post-Reformasi Indonesia<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fourteen years after the Reformasi movement in Indonesia, the democratization process is facing a number of challenges. With the exposure of corruption in the House of Representatives and money politics in the political parties, people's trust in structural democracy is declining. The lack of new figures in the political parties, and President Bambang Yudhoyono's tendency to avoid responsibility on the grounds of democratic procedures aggravate the matter. On the other hand, a different atmosphere of democratic rigor can be seen in another arena: the media -- especially the social media, YouTube, Twitter, Face Book -- and popular culture. In this arena, artistic creativity blends in with political campaign to push democratic agenda in Indonesia. Using the cases of the Yogyakarta special status campaign and the Jakarta Gubernatorial election, the paper argues that people's voice in the this new arena show resilience against divisive racial, ethnic and religious politics, which still colored political representation in formal democratic structures. Reaching people from different backgrounds -- especially the youth -- popular culture and social media serves as new force in channeling people's political participation in Indonesian democratic process.<b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Subject to approval from the speakers, ISG presentations (audio and visuals) are generally available soon after the event for <a href="http://crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/ip/seminars/" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/ip/seminars/ blocked::http://crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/ip/seminars.php">download</a>.</span></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>The committee welcomes suggestions for seminar speakers and topics. Please contact any of us: Sri Wahyuningroem x 52411; Ronit Ricci x 53180;</span></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Ed Aspinall x 55915; Greg Fealy x 52302, John McCarthy x 50494; Ross Tapsell x 53677;</span></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Marcus Mietzner x 57241; Umbu Reku Raya x 55537; Daniel Suryadarma x 50304; Robert Sparrow x 53885.</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-AU style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>If you would like to be added to the ISG mailing list, please send your contact details, including your email address, to <a href="mailto:indonesia.project@anu.edu.au" target="_blank" title="blocked::mailto:indonesia.project@anu.edu.au"><span style='color:red'>indonesia.project@anu.edu.au</span></a>.</span></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>ENQUIRIES</span></i></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>:</span></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Nurkemala Muliani</span><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#888888'><br><i>Indonesia Project<br></i>x 5</span><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>5954</span><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#888888'><br><a href="mailto:nurkemala.muliani@anu.edu.au">nurkemala.muliani@anu.edu.au</a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>