Media - Indonesia at Melbourne

Talking Indonesia: digital populism

In a time when Indonesian democracy is under threat and protestors against the government are become more and more frustrated, does the internet in Indonesia still have the potential to be a force for good?

Talking Indonesia: 200th episode

Talking Indonesia

To celebrate Talking Indonesia's 200th episode, our hosts reflect on some of their favourite episodes, discussing topics as diverse as media freedom, illegal fishing, racism and gender equality.

Digital democracy: Bintang Emon, buzzers and the itch to express

Media, Society

Social media stars are playing an important role in shaping what democracy looks and feels like in the digital age, writes Tito Ambyo.

Talking Indonesia: reporting Covid-19

Media, Public health, Talking Indonesia

What explains the vastly different tone in foreign and Indonesian reporting on the Indonesian government’s response to Covid-19? Dr Dirk Tomsa explores the issue with Indonesian journalist Febriana Firdaus and ABC journalist Max Walden in the latest episode of Talking Indonesia.

How economic conditions affected voting in the 2014 election

2014 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Economy, Elections

With the 2019 elections fast approaching, Dr Teguh Dartanto presents results from a recent research paper suggesting that in the 2014 Presidential Election, voters in villages with good economic conditions were more likely to vote for Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

Talking Indonesia: online feminism

Gender, Talking Indonesia

How has digital media created spaces for a diversity of views on issues important to Indonesian women, including sexuality and religion? What does an Indonesian ‘feminist’ publication look like? In Talking Indonesia this week, Dr Jemma Purdey explores these issues and more with Devi Asmarani, chief editor of online magazine Magdalene.

Talking Indonesia: the Indonesian media

Media, Talking Indonesia

How free is the Indonesian press? How does the concentration of media ownership affect journalists and audiences? And how are digital technologies transforming the media landscape? Dr Ken Setiawan chats to Dr Ross Tapsell about these issues and more in Talking Indonesia.

We're all perverts: sex and perversity in the media

Analysis, Gender, Society

Indonesian reporting on the arrest of so-called celebrity prostitute Nikita Mirzani has been detailed and profuse. Hendri Yulius writes that, whether we like to admit it or not, we all gain a degree of pleasure from reading these highly sexualised reports.

Sexuality, censorship and dangdut

Analysis, Human Rights

A gay web series last week provoked the ire of at least one lawmaker, who called for it to be blocked and its makers dealt with in the courts. As Hendri Yulius writes, the episode was just another example of the government's double standard in its approach to issues of sexuality.

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