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Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry

An effective mechanism of governance and regulation is crucial to the well-being of a country’s media system. The idea of the State regulating the broadcasting industry does seem contradictory to economic liberalism and so surely, the State is wary that the industry operates in a free market economy...

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Main Authors: Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan,, Dewi Anggrayni,, Roslina Abdul Latif,, Putri Wahyuni,
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14166/1/29361-96321-1-PB.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.141662020-02-07T11:20:35Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14166/ Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan, Dewi Anggrayni, Roslina Abdul Latif, Putri Wahyuni, An effective mechanism of governance and regulation is crucial to the well-being of a country’s media system. The idea of the State regulating the broadcasting industry does seem contradictory to economic liberalism and so surely, the State is wary that the industry operates in a free market economy for governance and regulation has its own repercussions. We situate our inquiry in the post-Reformation euphoria for media democratization in Indonesia, which historically, has established a strong relationship between oligarchic business interests and their political ambitions. Using focus group discussion as the primary method of elicitation, our research paper aims to understand deeper the strategic communicative process including meeting, planning, consultation and negotiation, and other implicit challenges involved in media governance and regulation process. We found that whilst the due process of governance and regulation remain real problem-solving events, they carry symbolic importance. There is still much improvement to be made in implementing regulatory framework including removing the ones that do not benefit the regulators. Our study implicates ethics and autonomy as two of the most outstanding issues in effective media co-regulation currently confronting the State and its regulating authorities in the face of ever-imposing media market deregulation on the broadcast industry. At the core of it all, the practice of media governance and regulation is essentially a series of ‘communicative event’ between the authorities, the State and the market. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14166/1/29361-96321-1-PB.pdf Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan, and Dewi Anggrayni, and Roslina Abdul Latif, and Putri Wahyuni, (2019) Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 15 (1). pp. 27-38. ISSN 2180-2491 http://ejournals.ukm.my/gmjss/issue/view/1169
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description An effective mechanism of governance and regulation is crucial to the well-being of a country’s media system. The idea of the State regulating the broadcasting industry does seem contradictory to economic liberalism and so surely, the State is wary that the industry operates in a free market economy for governance and regulation has its own repercussions. We situate our inquiry in the post-Reformation euphoria for media democratization in Indonesia, which historically, has established a strong relationship between oligarchic business interests and their political ambitions. Using focus group discussion as the primary method of elicitation, our research paper aims to understand deeper the strategic communicative process including meeting, planning, consultation and negotiation, and other implicit challenges involved in media governance and regulation process. We found that whilst the due process of governance and regulation remain real problem-solving events, they carry symbolic importance. There is still much improvement to be made in implementing regulatory framework including removing the ones that do not benefit the regulators. Our study implicates ethics and autonomy as two of the most outstanding issues in effective media co-regulation currently confronting the State and its regulating authorities in the face of ever-imposing media market deregulation on the broadcast industry. At the core of it all, the practice of media governance and regulation is essentially a series of ‘communicative event’ between the authorities, the State and the market.
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author Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan,
Dewi Anggrayni,
Roslina Abdul Latif,
Putri Wahyuni,
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Dewi Anggrayni,
Roslina Abdul Latif,
Putri Wahyuni,
Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry
author_facet Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan,
Dewi Anggrayni,
Roslina Abdul Latif,
Putri Wahyuni,
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title Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry
title_short Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry
title_full Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry
title_fullStr Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry
title_full_unstemmed Implementing governance and regulation in Indonesia’s broadcasting industry
title_sort implementing governance and regulation in indonesia’s broadcasting industry
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2019
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14166/1/29361-96321-1-PB.pdf
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