Re: [blogger_makassar] [panyingkul]: Andreas Harsono: Indonesian Journalists and The Presidents

[Amril Taufik Gobel]

Versi Chinca Lawra:

*Aih..Andreas Harsono, siapa seh? Tapi kalau gue lihat dari artikelnya Mas
Andreas just highlight ada kesamaan antara Eyang Harto compare with SBY
dalam soal mencanangkan hari pers nasional. Keduanya tuh ya punya kebijakan
yang sama : "self cencorship". Padahal, hare gene? Pliss deh..sekarang tuh
ya bukan zaman lagi pake sensor-sensoran. Ini udah era terbuka. Apalagi, you
know, ini zaman para blogger, para jurnalis warga yang tentu saja mengusung
keterbukaan informasi bagi khalayak pembaca. Jadi, menurut Chinca seh, SBY
jangan konfyus lah. Gaul dikit. Oya..titip salam sama Mus si Kurus Keren ya,
minta tolong dong saya dibikinin blog. *

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[blogger_makassar] [panyingkul]: Andreas Harsono: Indonesian Journalists and The Presidents

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Andreas Harsono tentang Journalists, Presiden, Politisi dan PWI...

http://asiablogging.com/blog/223/the-presidents-and-the-journalists/

Special Column: Guest bloggers
The Presidents and the Journalists

by Andreas Harsono  on Monday,
February 11th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

In February 1997, President Suharto made a speech in front of Indonesia's
top editors and media executives in a State Palace ceremony to commemorate
the "National Press Day" in Jakarta.

According to media reports, the state-sanctioned Persatuan Wartawan
Indonesia, or the Indonesian Journalists Association, organized the event
and invited Suharto to deliver the keynote address.

"If there are values, that are against ours, succeeded in penetrating (our
society), the press should increase national awareness about their danger
and show ways how to end them," said Suharto. He talked at length about what
he called "Pancasila journalism."

What the media didn't relate was that three years earlier, Suharto had
ordered the closure of three news weeklies: Detik, Editor and Tempo. Suharto
also jailed some journalists protesting the closure. He won many street
protests and international condemnation. But the PWI issued a statement,
saying that it "understood" the banning rationale. A PWI executive also
blacklisted 13 journalists, who signed a declaration to establish an
independent journalist union.

As if trying to lick the ass of the dictator, PWI executives asked Suharto
to lecture the media executives on the "National Press Day." Suharto happily
asked the media to impose self-censorship, saying that the media should
filter "foreign values" and enhance "national awareness."

But Suharto was at the end of his rule. The Asian economic crisis hit
Indonesia five months later. In May 1998, Suharto was forced to step down
from his 32-year dictatorship amidst massive street protests and spiraling
rupiahs.

Now let's move forward to February 2008. A new president was also invited to
deliver a keynote speech at the same "National Press Day," by the same
journalists association: the PWI. This time, the commemoration was held in
Semarang.

Suharto is already dead in his mausoleum in Solo. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,
also an (retired) army general and a former aide to Suharto, is now the
president.

In his speech, President Yudhoyono asked the media to exercise
"self-censorship," saying that it should be improved by only reporting
"appropriate" news.

"Bans and (state) censorship of the press no longer exist in our country.
The press has achieved the freedom it fought for, but the freedom is not
absolute," he told some 500 top editors.

"It is the press that should control itself for the good of the nation. The
people want the press to provide accurate and objective information,"
Yudhoyono said.

He criticized some media. "They only think of practical interests. Please
don't be like that. Don't be too partisan because the word 'too' is clearly
not good." He added the media should maintain its independence by not
getting involved in business or political interests.

Interestingly, Tarman Azzam, the PWI president who hosted Yudhoyono, is also
a politician. Azzam is a Golkar legislator. In 1994, Azzam was also the PWI
executive who blacklisted the 13 journalists and asked the police to jail
three reporters.

Probably both Yudhoyono and the editors should learn from Bill Moyers, a New
York television host, who said that what's important for journalists is not
how close they are to power but how close they are to reality. As long as
journalists and politicians don't practice that, I'm afraid, history will
repeat itself.


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