The Impact of International Media Training on Radio Professionals in Indonesia

Professional journalism training in developing countries has been one of the most important elements in the U.S. democracy assistance program since the late 1980s. Numerous organizations were involved with these projects focusing on both journalism and management training. This study looked at the impact of the training from the perspective of training participants. Radio professionals were the subjects for this research because they experienced the training and could describe what they thought about training and how they made use of it in their work. Indonesia was selected because it was one of the countries that received a large amount of funding for training. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of international media training on radio professionals in Indonesia. The study examined the effectiveness of training organizations in implementing training programs in Indonesia. Diffusion of innovation theory was used as a theoretical framework based on the premise that training has been one of the most common tools used to diffuse new ideas and knowledge other than the formal education setting. A mixed-methodology by combining focus group discussion and survey was used in order to understand the impact of training for Indonesian radio professionals. Finding suggested that most journalists and managers adopted training and diffused the new knowledge and skills to fellow professionals. Some of them continued to adopt while others stopped due to both internal and external challenges. Journalists said management was the main obstacle to for adoption; while managers blamed the market situation. In addition, other factors that occurred in training also played a role in adoption including participant selection, needs assessment, training materials, trainers and the structure of trainin

Indonesian Pesantren and Community Social Change: Moderate Islam’s Use of Media and Technology for Nonformal, Community-Based Education

This study extends previous research, attempting to better understand pesantren (Indonesian, Islamic boarding schools) by examining factors facilitating the adoption and application of new media and technology in their broader, community-based educational initiatives

Journalism and the Islamic Worldview: Journalistic roles in Muslim-majority countries

This paper looks at the extent to which journalistic culture in Muslim-majority countries is shaped by a distinctive Islamic worldview. We identified four principles of an Islamic perspective to journalism: truth and truth-telling (siddiq and haqq), pedagogy (tabligh), seeking the best for the public interest (maslahah), and moderation (wasatiyyah). A survey of working journalists in Africa (Egypt, Sierra Leone, and Sudan), Asia (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates), and Europe (Albania and Kosovo) found manifestations of these roles in the investigated countries. The results point to the strong importance of an interventionist approach to journalism-as embodied in the maslahah principle-in most societies. Overall, however, journalists' roles in Muslim-majority countries are not so much shaped by a distinctively Islamic worldview as they were by the political, economic, and socio-cultural contexts.This study was made possible by the Worlds of Journalism Study, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; the German Research Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation.Scopu

Journalism Students' Motivation in Indonesia

Being a journalist is one of the impetus of studying journalism and mass communication in Indonesian higher education. This paper focuses on understanding students’ motivation in relation to their expectation for their future job and their understanding toward the current media situation. A convenient survey was conducted to 462 journalism and mass communication students in 11 universities through out Indonesia. The surveys explore questions regarding fields of their future career as well as the desired media and communication institutions. Questions about motivations and reasons were also brought forward. Survey results indicate that personal goals are as important as societal goals for journalism and communication students in their motivation to study journalism. Students valued having a secure job and having autonomy in their work are as important as the prestige of the profession or intention to help nation building. The fact that the vibrant freedom of press in the world’s third largest democracy that has nurtured idealistic values of press is not the main driving factor for them to become journalist. </p

Journalists' development journalism role perceptions

Development journalism remains an important concept in the journalism studies literature, but it has, at the same time, suffered from a lack of empirical research. Drawing on a survey of 2598 journalists from eight South Asian, Southeast Asian, and sub-Saharan African countries, which was conducted as part of the Worlds of Journalism Study, this study assesses the importance journalists ascribe to three key development journalism roles—social intervention, national development, and educating people. It also compares these perceptions across the countries, between government- and privately owned news media in these countries, and between these countries and 19 Worlds of Journalism Study countries in Western Europe and North America, which profess to adhere to an objective and democratic press function. Findings suggest that journalists from the eight countries, across government- and privately owned media, considered development journalism important, and detached, adversarial journalism as less important. Their rating of the latter roles differed considerably from those of journalists from the 19 comparison countries. Results suggest that journalists were more likely socialized into their roles rather than being forced into the same by the heavy hand of government