"Having spent some time in the living rooms of 12 families across Greater Jakarta, West Java and East Nusa Tenggara, we found that audience has their own ways of consuming media and capacity to reflect on the content they are served. This capacity differs varyingly, fundamentally depending on three ... aspects: 1) the differing degrees of access and infrastructure available around the area, 2) the knowledgeability of the person in question and 3) the societal values that tie their ways of living. Across the demographics, despite their heterogenous profile, audience has common reflections about the quality of television content. As they are aware that their identities and worldview are strongly constructed by television, their criticisms and utterance are abound but find no way of channelling to the industry. Direct means of feedback to content producers are scarce, which impedes the production of a more diverse content needed to represent the heterogeneity of audience." (Executive summary) more

"Indonesien richtet sein Augenmerk auf die kommende Präsidentschaftswahl 2014. Ein Faktor, der in diesem Prozess und dessen Ausgang eine große Rolle spielen könnte, ist die Medienlandschaft. Um die Bedeutung der Medien für die Förderung von Demokratie und die Vermittlung von Grundsätzen der Me ... inungsfreiheit verstehen zu können, muss man die Auswirkungen der Reformasi auf die Wahrung der Medienrechte der BürgerInnen verstehen." (Abstract) more