Jurnalisme Warga, Ruang Warga untuk Bersuara
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Anton
Muhajir
Sloka Institute
, BA
, BA
1‐5 years
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Operating for 1‐5 years
When TIME awarded Person of The Year 2006 to netizens, it directly came into my mind that, aha!, it's time for people to start produce information, not merely receiving it. In that inspiring article, TIME wrote about netizens who collaboratively changed the world through the use of the Internet. For instance, YouTube, Myspace, blog, and so on. The article stayed in my mind for a while and later on inspired me to do a similar thing in Bali based on my passion and world, journalism and blog.
So, with the help from my friends, I initiated citizen journalism blogging in Denpasar, Bali. That was how www.balebengong.net was created and got online since June 2007 after being established for the first time and developed in April 2007 on blogspot.com. This is the same blog that gathered bloggers all over Bali and later on established Bali Blogger Community (BBC).
While the residents only act as readers or consumers in the mainstream media, this citizen journalism encourages every resident to produce their own information. It has been proven that, as time goes by, there is an increase in the number of non-journalist residents who write on the blog. Although people have not considered it
The main power of this program is the residents and the Internet themselves. Generally, the mainstream media in Bali has less than 50 journalists each. This citizen journalism blog alone has more than 160 contributors. Additionally, it happened before we manage the blog intensively or embrace the residents. If there are more and more residents take part as contributors, it is likely that there will also be much more information circulating and becoming the alternatives of mainstream media in Bali.
The residents will be more knowledgeable as it is easier now to share information via communication technology as well as the Internet. Using mobile phones, the residents are able to exchange text messages that can be propagated further via Twitter or Facebook. They can also share longer and more comprehensive information with wider coverage by utilizing social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
We are focusing the social impact of this program towards the urban audience in Bali, especially Denpasar. This is mainly due to their Internet literacy, which is better than those who reside in the outskirts or the areas that are not covered by internet service. The primary target of
For the next 1-5 years, I am hoping that this program will motivate every resident to share information among them via various kinds of alternative media, including this very program of citizen journalism. Through this blog, the residents can retrieve alternative information aside from that of mainstream media. If the residents are able to produce information by themselves, the availability of information will consequently be increasing in number and diversity. The more information that is accessible, the better the knowledge of the residents will be. These people will also get used to thinking in diversity.
This idea can be applied in other regions, not only Bali. It can be done simply by creating a blog, portal or a media that not only involves the residents as consumers, but also make
The presence of active citizen correspondents and information centres as well as communication devices in six indigenous communi
Identifying and socializing the program to the youth communities in the community as a preliminary stage to introduce the progra
Delivering training programs for citizen correspondents from the town's youth community so that they will eventually be able to
Establishing information centres (mobile phones, computers and Internet) in every community that becomes the program location.
The existence of balanced alternative information that is accessible periodically from the citizen correspondents who particular
Identification, socialization and training for the residents, especially the youths of the indigenous community
Mentoring residents so that they can write about their daily surrounding through the use of information technology.
Publish the result of residents' reportage through blog and trigger discussions through social networks, such as Facebook and Tw
1,001 - 10,000
More than 10,000
Hybrid model
Referring to our four-year-experience in managing citizen journalism blog, the barrier of the success of this program is that it is difficult to persuade residents to produce and propagate information through blog continuously. Thus, there will be a mentoring team who regularly reminds, encourages, and mentors residents to produce that information. Another possible challenge is that the residents are too busy to produce information. To resolve that problem, a schedule will be made to enable residents to produce the information regularly with different topics.
Boredom will be another challenge. One of the ways is doing a shared reportage for a specific topic, which eventually will make the residents closer.
On the next decade, information technology devices (such as mobile phone & computer) and internet connection will be more affordable. This will be the chance for residents to use and utilize information technology more easily. Despite the fact that information technology becomes more affordable, residents are not capable to use it productively yet. Therefore, citizen journalism gives room and chance for residents to use it more positively, such as by producing information like texts, images, or videos.
If the idea of persuading the town's youth community to actively produce information through this citizen journalism blog failed, we will anticipate it by changing our target from the town's youth community to non-governmental organization (NGO). To date, we are quite involved with NGO because we frequently do some activities together, including information technology and citizen journalism training. The strategy and implementation pattern of the program are not too much different. However, the base is changed from the town's youth community to NGO activist community. The issues will still be varied.
For the initial phase, the program realization fund will be derived from individuals or NGO. Nevertheless, in order to make this program more interesting as well as giving some economic benefit for the citizens, a system of article payment must be built. Since the blog is managed together by the citizens, they will be responsible to pay the articles. Not only rating an article, they can also donate or become advertisers in this blog. This is a method we have not yet tried. However, it is a big opportunity to be an experiment of community media management such as citizen journalism blog.
Another funding source is advertisement, like the one in mainstream media. However, this new source will rely more on residents' small businesses by the system of reviewing their products or services.
So far we build partnership between journalists, bloggers, internet development service providers, and residents. Each partner has their own role. The journalists become the editor and primary admin of the blog. The bloggers are the blog's designer and programmer. The internet development service providers support domain and hosting. While the residents become the major contributor of the blog.
For periodic realization of citizen journalism training, with around 100 alumni since 2010 until now, we have been supported by philanthropy community in Bali.
The team in this program includes program coordinators, mentors, designers, programmers, and the residents. The program coordinators will coordinate the program implementation, as well as being the main admin and editor. The mentors will work in the field more often, not only for mentoring residents in producing information but also writing as the residents' correspondent. The designers and programmers will work more on the blog's appearance and functionalities. The residents will be represented by at least two members of the town's youth community who a
Human resources or talent, Marketing or media, Research or information, Collaboration or networking, Pro-bono help (legal, financial, etc.).
Marketing or media, Collaboration or networking.
We need support related to human resource enhancement because so far we mostly depend on our own experience in implementing the program, without having any formal education or training associated with citizen journalism or information technology. We need marketing or promotion support because we do not give enough consideration on those aspects. We also need other parties who are capable to do some researches related to the development of information technology, especially the citizen journalism in Bali or Indonesia.
We need network support to expand the opportunity or information access both globally or nationally. We still lack in networking support, particularly in global level. We also need free-of-charge help, especially for mentoring or consulting.
Sloka Institute develops citizen journalism blog where the citizens do not only get information but also provide it on their own