[Asia_news] [Indonesia.study.group] Reminder: ISG THURSDAY, 1 November 2012

[Indonesia Project]

INDONESIA STUDY GROUP

 

N.B. Different Day & Venue

 

Thursday,  1 November, 12.30 - 2.00 pm

Seminar Room A, Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU

 

Melani Budianta (Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia)


People's Voices: Media, Popular Culture and Democratization Process in
Post-Reformasi Indonesia


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.

 

Subject to approval from the speakers, ISG presentations (audio and visuals)
are generally available soon after the event for download
<http://crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/ip/seminars/> .

 

The committee welcomes suggestions for seminar speakers and topics. Please
contact any of us: Sri Wahyuningroem x 52411;  Ronit Ricci x 53180; Ed
Aspinall x 55915; Greg Fealy x 52302, John McCarthy x 50494; Ross Tapsell x
53677; Marcus Mietzner x 57241; Umbu Reku Raya x 55537; Daniel Suryadarma x
50304; Robert Sparrow x 53885.

 

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ENQUIRIES:
Nurkemala Muliani
Indonesia Project
x 55954
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