The Alliance of Indonesian Journalists (AJI) has reimposed its blacklist of companies with spotty records in human rights and sustainability issues when it comes to partnering with them on initiatives with its members. The AJI Congress on March 2 elected Sasmito Madrim (VOA) and Ika Ningtyas (East Java contributor to Tempo) as Chairman and Secretary-General...
Social Media Interaction: Technology Changes, Human Nature Doesn’t
For many friends of mine from a certain non-digital native vintage, the social platforms available can seem bewildering. Yet social media is here to stay and until we older folks expire our stay, we have to come to grips with it. The platforms change all the time. There was ICU, then Friendster, then Facebook, Twitter...
Ushering in a new era for PR measurement in Indonesia
Written by Jessica Noviena, an Analyst in the Monitoring and Analytics Department. For the longest time, the PR industry has relied on PR value as a metric of success but experts are now arguing that many of the evaluation methods and techniques that have been taken for granted for so many years are no longer...
A Glimpse into My Three-Year Journey at Maverick: The Realization that Disability is not a Barrier
Written by Clarina Az Zahra Noor, Media Analyst in the Monitoring and Analytics Department If you saw me sitting on my desk, not far from the iconic red-telephone-box look-alike toilet doors on the third floor, or during the numerous ZOOM calls of the work-from-home period, you would probably never suspect that I have a disability. In...
Pandemic Provides Momentum for the Print Media to Rise Again
For the print media, digital subscription appears to be its main solution in the future. Changes in the way people choose their sources of information in the digital era have also changed their lifestyles, the way they consume news. Editor-in-chief of the Kompas Daily, Sutta Dharmasaputra, said that the era of pandemic era provided the...
This month saw the demise of two major newspapers in Indonesia. The first was Indo Pos, the newspaper that the Jawa Pos Group started in 2003 to serve the Greater Jakarta, Banten and West Java area. Then came the closure of the 33-year old Suara Pembaruan the evening dailythat was published as a replacement for Sinar...
