| Reporting
diversity network Indonesia - pilot project
Micro- < $15,000
|
Small-$15,000-$100,000 |
Medium-$100,000-$500,000 |
Large-$500,000-$1 million |
Very large- >$1 million |
| Partners: |
Aliansi Jurnalis Independen
(Jakarta) |
|
Funders: | The
Open Society Institute |
Project objectives:
| To
study the media diversity situation in Indonesia and make an assessment as to
whether MDI's work would be useful and cost-effective in that country. If the
assessment indicates that MDI can make an effective and meaningful intervention
in Indonesia: | | • | to
find out what are the media diversity issues and problems - if any - that need
to be addressed in Indonesia; | | • | to
invite people there to offer their ideas for solutions to those problems; |
| • | to
talk to people about solutions that MDI and others have tried in other places,
and to ask them which of these ideas they think might be able to be adapted to
their region, and how; | | • | to
determine whether MDI should work on a particular diversity theme across the entire
region, or work with various themes but limit that work to a particular geographical
region, or to work on a particular theme in a particular geographical region; |
| • | to
introduce the Indonesian media, media educators and relevant NGOs, to MDI's concepts
and practises of reporting diversity and the work of the its Reporting Diversity
Network; | | • | to
make contacts (including partners and beneficiaries) that could later be used
in the development of a programme, if one is to be drawn up for the region; |
| • | to
develop - in conjunction with potential beneficiaries in the field - a media diversity
programme for that country. |
Project
activities:
| The
project will take place in two or three phases: research, consultation and project
preparation: | | 1. |
initially UK-based research, followed by a fact-finding mission
to Indonesia conduct research in the field amongst three groups: |
| |
• | journalists
and editors from both the state and non-state media, from both the broadcast and
print sectors; | | |
• |
teachers and professors who train journalists; | | |
• | leaders
of minorities groups representing ethnic or racial minorities, religious minorities,
women, refugees, people with disabilities, sexual minorities, migrants, refugees,
homeless people, children, the elderly, etc. | | 2. |
an Indonesian-based conference on media diversity, in which the most dynamic and
solution-oriented of those of potential beneficiaries will meet to assess the
regional applicability of MDI's concepts of reporting diversity, and to share
their ideas for media diversity change strategies. The initial emphasis on reporting
diversity problems in Indonesia will shift, as the conference progresses, to a
focus on generating solutions for change. The aim to produce a series of strategies
and tactics for tackling reporting diversity problems in Indonesia. |
| 3. | and,
depending on the outcome of the first and second phases, a possible third project
preparation phase, in which a comprehensive, long-term plan for the development
of media diversity in Indonesia is designed, based on detailed analysis of the
information and change strategies collected and collated during the fact-finding
mission and conference. The bulk of any solutions included in that plan will be
ideas created by local people, or variations on those ideas. In this way MDI will
be able to create a media diversity programme for Indonesia that addresses the
needs of people in the region with pin-point accuracy. | |
