The Press: Industry and Ideology

            Start from Soekarno era until millennium era, most likely the regulation of media agenda seems similar comparing to book publishing. Pancasila value was like the ‘God’ of regulating the media. The significant difference on this aspect is that political parties have the big involvement on emerging their power to the use of newspapers, because it was proved that during Soekarno era until New Order Regime, printing press was the most powerful medium for society, due to the fact that internet approach was not highly existed.

            According to writer’s opinion, most likely the changes of regulation in press industry seems almost the same as book publishing. The difference is that many journalists gave more protest in freedom of press reports. Just like the riot of Malari on January 15^th, many journalists faced a protests that (in the end) left several people in prison, due to the fact that there’s a strict control of information under Soeharto, while he corrupted Indonesia’s economy and resources for the sake of his family. Therefore obviously many journalists also rebelled against Soeharto’s army, as well as built a new organization called AJI (Aliansi Jurnalis Independen).

            In conclusion, writer believes that right now the freedom of press has been widely seized by journalists, even the mass. Many people can have access to post blogs, in addition journalists have less control of what they are saying on the article, although there’s still an editor. It can be seen that nowadays the control of media and regulation couldn’t be strictly controlled anymore. Even if there’s still some fundamental regulations, however people will see other media access that might ‘leak’ to one another, in order to get profit, or trick people; such as posting hoax, and so on.