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Wisdom of Whores Takes Tea with the Dead
Unspun’s past life was as a journalist in a newspaper too incredible to be true, The Asia Times. It was a menagerie of strange characters from an editor who spoke like he was high all the time as speakers taller than him blasted Wagnerian music out of his office, to his deputy who had been an advisor of Lyndon LaRouche, to ex CIA, Mossad and KGB spooks pretending to be journalists and other assorted drunks, poseurs and yes, a few legit and good journalists.
One of the the journalists, and a damn good one, was this plucky woman by the name of Elizabeth Pisani. We met in Bangkok just as the paper was starting back in 1997 and became fast friends for life. I guess it was the feeling of solidarity as we seemed to be the only legit, and productive journalists there. Then, she had been a journalist for Reuters in Jakarta for several years and at Asia Times she covered Vietnam while Unspun covered Indonesia, inheriting some of Elizabeth’s friends and contacts whom she generously introduced.
When the Asia Times went South after the Asian Economic Crisis, Unspun, then already in Jakarta sought refuge in The Dark Side (Public Relations to the uninitiated) and lost track of Elizabeth.
Until she surfaced in Jakarta, this time in her other life as an epidemologist working in the field of AIDS and HIV infection. Her stint here resulted in a wonderful and controversial book, The Wisdom of Whores. Elizabeth then disappeared into the lecture and training circuit and each time I heard from her she was in some exotic location. The last I heard from her, I think was when she was kneed deep in floods in some South American country doing god-knows-what.
Now she’s popped up in Jakarta again and after a brief catch-up at Anomali in Senopati she’s vanished again, this time to Bali and on to the more remote places of Indonesia. The reason: Taking Some Tea with the Dead. That’s the title of her new book on Indonesia which will be a culmination of all the traveling that she’ll be doing for the next few months. But while she travels, Elizabeth will also be keeping a blog, Portrait Indonesia, of her journeys and the adventures she encounters in Indonesia.
She writes wonderfully and eloquently, and has a wry eye out for the unusual so it should be lots of fun. So check out her blog and you might ant to let her know in English or Indonesian (her Indonesian – and Bahasa Gaul at that – is way better than Unspun’s) some of the more unusual and interesting people or places she could visit in her travels. I believe she’s heading for Sumba as her first port of call after Bali.
Here’s what she has to say about Portrait Indonesia
In late 2011, epidemiologist, writer and adventurer Elizabeth Pisani granted herself a sabbatical from the day job and set off to rediscover Indonesia, a country she has wandered, loved and been baffled by for decades. On this site she will share photos and occasional musings from her journey, which, if all goes well, will cover some 10,000 kilometers.
The journey will form the backbone of a book (and a multimedia BookPlus), which will include also reflections on her earlier incarnations in Indonesia. The first of these was as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Ten years later she was back in the very different guise of epidemiologist, helping the Ministry of Health better understand Indonesia’s HIV epidemic. That work contributed to her first book, The Wisdom of Whores, published in 2008.
The new book, with the provisional title “Taking Tea with the Dead”, will deal less with sex and drugs, and more with the other enchanting and sometimes maddening foibles of Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation. We hope it will give you a taste of this beautiful, chaotic and unfathomable land.
Sent from the back of a cab in a Jakarta traffic jam
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The euphoria surrounding social media has been so infectious that many brand managers and organizations have jumped headlong into opening their own Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.
Some enterprising ones have conducted a campaign or two using these social platforms that they have classified as unqualified successes because it generated some buzz in the form of hashtags earned, or increased followers in the Facebook ro Twitter accounts. But are they real successes? In the business world communications is but a tool.Tools are useful when they help the business to achieve its objectives,wasteful when they do not. Social media and its platforms, in this sense, are but tools to achieve business objectives like increased sales and closer ties to customers that matter most.
In this context, how many of the social media programs we see around us in Indonesia are flashes-in-the-pan that create a lot of razzle and dazzle for a moment and then die down, conspicuously achieving nothing? How many social programs out there will never help an iota in increasing sales and/or strengthening the bond between brands and their consumers?
How many zombie Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are there out there in cyber space, brought to life in a rush of enthusiasm and then neglected when the owner can’t quite figure that to do next?
If any of this describes the organizations you’re familiar with then its time to get real, to take a pause and question who do you real need to communicate with via cosmical media and to what end, before forging ahead with your social media activities at a faster clip.
It is with this in mind that my colleagues at Raconteur and Brio have put together a workshop that aims give brands/organizations/ social media policy and usage a health check up; as well as hands-on practical sessions in mapping out your real audience and what strategies to adopt moving forward that are real and relevant to the people you are trying to reach.
The workshop, to be held on November 24, will be run by Hanny Kusumawati who’s perhaps better known by her Twitter handle @beradadisini and the movement she started, Coin-a-Chance, that has won several awards and recognized for its innovative use of social media. Hanny who lectures on communications at Universitas Paramadina and is an oft sought after speaker on social media, also heads Raconteur, the digital storytellers division in Maverick. There she and her team consult to clients on how best to use social media to meet their business objectives.
She’s assisted by Jonathan Tenggara, our resident geek who specializes in digital technology and social media analysis. He’ll be able to tell you how to measure and quantify the impact social media campaigns and programs have on your brands.
They are very bright guys who also happen to know the Indonesian social media landscape inside out so it should be workshop that anyone who’s interested in boosting their businesses’ social media performance cannot afford to miss.
Ramadhan blooper II: Indonesian TV’s turn
In Unspun’s last posting we featured the silliness of TV8 in Malaysia and its Ramadhan message. While the flak is still flying in Malaysia, Indonesia’s TVOne (what is it with TV stations and numerals?) seems to have come up with silliness of their own.
TV stations traditionally air a videoclip to accompany the adz an prayers. Typical messages are, of course, exhorting people to be religious, to be tolerant, to have compassion. This year, however, TVOne has a different message:
It starts with a tailor being treated badly. This inspires him to get even by doing well for himself. So he goes to the bank to get a loan, start a business. As he prospers he buys a car.
Here’s where product placement gets ridiculous. The camera has the requisite handshake-to-denote-closed-deal shot and as it pans out, very prominently we see the Daihatsu marqe and the make of the model of the car – Sirjohn (what sort of an idiot will name a car Sirjohn anyway?)
As the car leaves the showroom, breaking all the rules of the Highway Code because it does not have a legit number plate but the ridiculous SIRJOHN, the camera carefully pans across a – you guessed it – DAIHATSU showroom and the fact that it is part of ASTRA International.
What were the marketing people at Astra Daihatsu and their advertising company thinking? Unspun supposes the question is moot because if they were thinking at all they would have realized that something like that smacks of a brand exploiting religion to sell its products, would backfire.
Already, Twitter is all abuzz with this insensitivity on the part of Astra and Daihatsu. Let’s see how they will drive their way out of all this.
A social media revolution in the making in Pakistan?
Indonesian bloggers Hanny “beradadisini”, Nonadita and Unspun were fortunate enough to be invited to Pakistan’s 1st Social Media Summit on June 11 in Karachi. We had a fabulous time and observed that the energy, behavior and enthusiasm of the 150 or so bloggers who attended, if they were indicative of the online community there, was reminiscent of Indonesia about five years ago – when social media use was on the verge of a take-off.
Since those days Indonesia has seen a phenomenal growth in the use of social media, in an era where the online community has been able to assert its influence in politics, start social movements and, for many Indonesians, see it as a source of income whether they are buzzers, endorsers, brand activators, site owners or owners of virtual outlets.
One of the things we found was also that the Pakistanis are also very articulate and eloquent. One of them, who was a key participant at the summit, is Bina Shah, a writer, columnist, author of the book Slum Child and prolific (and fun) Tweep (@BinaShah). Below she writes in an Oped piece for Dawn newspaper her observations of Pakistan’s online developments since the summit. More evidence that Pakistan’s online community is on a take-off trajectory?
Social media revolutionBy Bina Shah
AFTER the recent successful Social Media Summit in Karachi, a number of people have started paying attention to the bloggers, the Twitter users and the Facebook addicts.
The realisation’s sinking in that social media isn’t just a game or a useless pastime. Summit attendee Mohammed El Dahshan, an Egyptian blogger who was at the forefront of the recent Egyptian revolution, spoke movingly at a panel about how Egyptian bloggers reported on both technical and social matters during the days in which Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power, gaining the trust of the people who could no longer rely on the government to tell them the truth about their country.
From this we can extrapolate that in countries like Pakistan, the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook users are the ones who
will lead the way to drastic change in Pakistani society because these people are the true revolutionaries in stagnant societies:
young, educated, progressive, eloquent and completely dissatisfied with the status quo, but still optimistic and idealistic
enough to actively foment change, rather than sinking into cynicism and passivity.
Pakistanis who use social media formulate ideas, discuss them freely with their peers, with intellectuals and with those leaders who are intelligent enough to have caught on to the zeitgeist. They argue vociferously, disseminate information and they meet, both in virtual space and real space. They make plans for action, and then they carry them out.
Twitter accelerates the energy promulgated by social activism; bloggers think, analyse and interpret the news in a deeper way than mainstream media; the Facebookers build strong social networks based on personal credibility. It all comes together in what’s been jokingly called ‘the Twitter hive mind’, or ‘crowdsourcing’, where the minds of many people work together in a virtual environment to come up with ideas bigger than what individuals can generate. This is where social media derives its power.
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At the 1st Malaysian-ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference
Mahathir these days seems much smaller than he was in 1982, the year I started becoming a journalist in Malaysia and covering some of his news conferences. Then, he radiated power and kept many of us in awe.
But last Sunday, at the 1st Malaysian – ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference (1MARBC) organised by Blog House Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur, he seemed shriveled by old age (he is 86), slight and vulnerable. He is still aware and articulate though and the most interesting quote of the occasion, in which Unspun was one of the nearly 40 ASEAN bloggers invited, came from him.
Group Photo of ASEAN and Malaysian Bloggers with the Malaysian PM and former-PM Pix from @Ranoadidas at ProjectBrunei.com
Speaking about blogging and government censorship in Malaysia during the conference luncheon, in which he accepted in becoming patron of Blog House Malaysia, he said: “There is no censorship but since I started blogging, I found some people to be too sycophantic and supportive or too critical.”
That was when I thought: “You’ve still got to give it to him. The Old Man may be getting on but he still has the ability to sum things up in one short and pity sentence.”
What he summed up was, for Unspun, practically the whole blogging scene in Malaysia. As someone who grew up in Malaysia and who later left to work elsewhere, but following the developments of the country’s online community from a distance, the Malaysian blogosphere seems riven by partisanship.
You have bloggers supporting the Prime Minister Najib Razak and you have those critical of him, often in excessive measures. Ditto with almost anything else that evokes passions – race, religion, personalities, government, opposition. There seems to be very little middle ground or a common place for friendly disagreement.
Everyone there, as Unspun, conscripted as a speaker at a breakout session on Corporates and Blogging told the audience, seems to take their views and themselves too seriously. Passion is good, but when passion when not accompanied with skillful expression leads to slights, enmity and polarization.
It is against this background that the 1st Malaysian – ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference (1MARBC) was held and it is to the credit of the executive committee at Blog House Malaysia that they managed to pull off a successful ASEAN gathering that, if nothing else, lays the foundation for a pan-ASEAN Bloggers Forum.
It is a credit to the committee because many prominent Malaysian bloggers chose not to attend (because they were too critical of what they perceive the Blog House bloggers were too supportive of) and the short planning timeframe that the committee had to turn their plans into reality.
Still, they managed to invite an eclectic and lively group of ASEAN bloggers from Brunei (Reeda Malik and Rano Iskandar), Cambodia (Sopheap Chak, Kounila Keo and Ramana Sorn) Indonesia (Ollie, Herman and Unspun), The Philippines (Tonyo Cruz and Blogie Robillo), Thailand (Chandler Vandergrift), Vietnam (Hy Huynh and Anh Minh Do) and the guys and Abigail from Sabah and Sarawak.
In the meetings we had, and more importantly in the conversations that took place over a glass or five of wine, we found that there was actually lots of things in common and of interest among bloggers in ASEAN.
Unspun found out, for instance that, the Philippines in the way the use social media, the stage of development of the country and the community-mindedness of the Filipinos, was uncannily similar to Indonesians. The Filipinos, like the Indonesians, are also well advanced in using other platforms such as Twitter and Four Square extensions of their blogging.
Cambodian bloggers who call themselves Cloggers (Cambodia + Bloggers) are quite politically active and have political censorship very much at the top of their minds.
Malaysian bloggers are mainly political or SoPo, the local abbreviation for Social-Political, and – like most of the country – faction riven and partisan. They, and their east Asian counterparts, are very passionate though and perhaps take themselves and their blogs most seriously in all of ASEAN.
Singaporean bloggers are probably like the rest of us but the delegate we had (forgot his name) has a very peculiar sense of humor. Unspun found it difficult to laugh at his jokes with the appropriate timing but he seemed all fired up to give the Singaporean Government a run for their money, on the government’s terms.
Unspun also found the Brunei bloggers a cool and articulate lot and the Vietnamese bloggers, Anh and Hyunh, the equivalent of Boy Band celebrities of the blogging world, but with brains.
We discussed many things and pledged with various levels of seriousness and inebriation to get together again because at the end of the day it was a truly ASEAN gathering. We found congeniality, camaraderie and a sense of belonging to the ASEAN region – and that, surely, is what ASEAN is about and what the ASEAN governments should be trying to do more of.
So for all its shortcomings in organizing the conference (Unspun’s sure someone sometime will take issue with selection fo condidates and the nitty gritties) credit must go to Blog House Malaysia’s exco, namely Syed Akbar Ali, secretary Tony Yew, assistant secretary
Firdaus Abdullah, treasurer Zakhir Mohamad, exco members Nuraina Samad, Eric Woon, Shamsul Akmar, Salahuddin Hisham, Endie Shazalie Akbar and advisor Rocky Bru for organizing what is hopefully the start of a meaningful dialogue between ASEAN netizens. Thanks for everything – especially the Galaxy Tab. No thanks though for raising the bar so high in terms of gifts that the rest of us who organize events now have a hard time topping it.
Other posts about the conference:
projekbrunei.com/asean-regional…
http://anakbrunei.com.bn/2011/04/26/blogging-mindfully-and-responsibly/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFElqALYpfI
hermansaksono.com/2011/04/kemerd…
Bravo to the unsung lion in Lion Air
It is not for no reason that Roy Suryo, the man with incredibly bad taste in neckwear, vies with Tifatul Sembiring for the title of Most Derided Public Figure Who Take Themselves Too Seriously.
Roy has been consistent though, in the sense that no matter what the obstacles and how untenable the situation he’s in, he remains undaunted in his faith that he can talk through anything.
Here again Roy the Boy shows his mettle. It’s all very suspicious. Roy apparently did not know what time his flight was; Lion Air letting him into an earlier flight without checking his ticket…how can anyone really explain such strangeness.
There is a silver lining in all this though. Someone should give the Lion Air pilot a medal for having the gumption and the guts to show his disgust at government officials and refusing to take off so long as Roy was hogging other people’s seats. Bravo to him.
Roy Suryo Maintains Innocence in Plane Seat Incident
March 28, 2011Democratic Party legislator Roy Suryo tried to explain his side on Saturday after being escorted off a Lion Air flight bound for Yogyakarta that morning that he had caused to be delayed through a seat mix-up.
“I felt that I was being framed and played,” Roy told a news conference in Jakarta. “No matter. I will accept the blame, although I didn’t make any mistakes.”
Roy said he wanted to give his side of the story after the incident quickly became a hot topic on Twitter.
A Twitter user identified as Ernest said he and a friend had boarded a 6:15 a.m. Lion Air flight to Yogyakarta only to find their seats occupied by the lawmaker and his wife. “When it was checked, it turned out that Roy Suryo’s tickets were for the 7:45 flight, not 6:15, but he refused to leave the plane, dropping the name of Lion Air’s director,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Ernest said he and his friend decided to just leave the plane, but other passengers came to their support. After a 15-minute delay, the pilot, identified only as Capt. Vino, reportedly came out to ask what the problem was.
After receiving an explanation from a flight attendant, Ernest continued, the pilot walked back into the cockpit, grabbed his bag and left the plane, cursing government officials as he went and refusing to take off if Ernest and his friend were not on the plane.
Shortly after, a group of airport officials boarded the plane and asked Roy to disembark.
A day of PRVaganza at University Indonesia’s Pekom 2011
Unspun isn’t let out of the office often and Tuesday was an one of those exceptions. The occasion was PRVaganza, a day in Communication Week 2011 or Pekan Komunikasi 2011 hosted by FISIP (Social and Political Faculty) University Indonesia in Depok. The theme this year revolved around Social Media.
There were three main events that day. The first was with a Seminar themed “Social Media Relations : Bringing Your Brand To Life” featuring as speakers one of the doyennes of Indonesian PR, Magdalena Wenas, Devi Rachmawati from UI, Aurellio Kaunang, the media relations Manager of Unilever, and Unspun.
The speakers spoke about how PR has transitioned from 1.0 to 2.0, how social media could be used for crisis and issues management and the incredibly hip and suave Aurellio spoke about how his organization used new media to connect with customers. Unspun cautioned that the euphoria with social media should be taken in stride. Rather than jump into a social media campaign, PR professionals should pause to get their strategy right before even thinking which social media channel they should use.
We had a great moderator in Muhammad Daud and our liaison for the event, Ira Ratna Juwita was simply superb in attention to details and keeping all of us up to date with developments. There were some hitches but overall the organizing committee did a good job, much better than some EOs that Unspun’s known.
The second event was Pecha Kucha featuring a host of PR professionals from consultancies as well as organizations speaking on the theme: My Workplace, My Web. This struck me as a good idea as the students right now have very little idea what the organizations they will likely be working in are like.
To the uninitiated, Pecha Kucha is a networking and speaking forum where each speaker is given 20 slides, 20 seconds a slide to present their ideas. This results in an eclectic parade of views and ideas, if done well. There were 11 speakers namely:
- Hanny Kusumawati (Head of New Media Division Maverick PR Consultant)
- Deden Purnamahadi (Edelman Digital Manager)
- Teguh Poeradisastra (Managing Director SPOT Corporate Communications)
- Dian Sunardi (Head of Marketing Blitz Megaplex)
- Elvera Nuriawati Makki (Internal Communication Manager PT Unilever,Tbk)
- Marianne Admardatine (Managing Director Ogilvy Public Relations Indonesia)
- Ricardo Indra (General Manager Corporate Communications Telkomsel)
- Fabian Prasetya (Public Relations Executive Sour Sally Frozen Yogurt)
- Oscar Pranajphalla (Marketing Communications Manager Fortune PR)
- Erwin Parengkuan (Managing Director Talk Incorporation
- Mark Winkel (Principal Consultant Prisma PR)
Posing with the winners of the PR proposal competition
Unspun was very proud of Hanny Kusumawati from Maverick (OK, I’m biased) who shared with gusto what her workplace was like, from having cool clients you can go clubbing and hanging out with (Brand A) to, the food obsession that marks each office day, the annual lively themed media gathering, the annual office overseas outing trip, the Personal Development Fund (you get, after working in Maverick a year, up to a month’s salary to do a course or travel anywhere you haven’t been to just to develop yourself as a better human being), the laptop ownership scheme (the office subsidizes you Rp5 million to buy a laptop, and if you don’t have the money we’ll give you an interest free loan), and a host of fun activities.
The other speakers were interesting too as they shared what it was like in their workplaces and how they used the web; but there was one or two speakers who simply couldn’t understand the brief for pecha kucha and clung to their remotes tighter than Linus clings to his security blanket. Some speakers (and Unspun can never understand why) went into default and beacon selling their brands or products when they should be sharing useful information or insights with the audience. And there was one particularly obtuse speaker from a telco who scaled the unlikeability charts by badmouthing all his competitors in his presentation (how did this guy get a communications job?)
Overall, however, the Pecha Kucha was enlightening as always and the audience learned a lot of things they did not know before.
The third event for the day, which stretched into the night was the PR Competition – where a shortlist of 15 university teams from throughout the country competed in a PR Proposal writing and presentation contest. In keeping with the theme, they had to handle a Social Media Crisis.
There were three judges, including Unspun, and we had to sift through the 15 written entries to come up with a list of 5 finalists, who then had to present their proposal to the jury. The team from University Padjajaran came up tops as they showed a very good understanding of the channels of information and influence online and offline. In second place was the team from University Diponegoro and in third place was one of the teams from University Indonesia.
All the teams, however, suffered from a lack of clarity when it came to defining their objectives and strategy. Where the objectives were concerned they usually stopped at a cosmetic and superficial achievement rather than what concrete results an effective communications strategy could achieve. And where strategy was concerned all of them mistook tactics for strategy.
It would have been depressing except for one student whose team did not make it to the finals. Unspun forgets which university he was from but during a break in the judging he came up to Unspun, qualified that he was not seeking to win but merely wanted to know, showed Unspun the team’s proposal and asked what was lacking in it.
Unspun shared with him what he always tells the newbies in his office attempting to write a proposal: To define your objective ask yourself ‘what would have changed or achieved if my PR program was 100% successful?‘ The answer is usually your objective.
Strategy is a bit more tricky but the crux of it is that a strategy statement has to be about an action plan to achieve a major goal, not a single action to achieve a limited goal. That is a tactic, like “open a FB page,” “twit about the issue” or “call a press conference”.
Unspun didn’t get his name and am now regretting it because in that young man lies the spirit of inquiry that is at the heart of all learning. Unspun left the UI campus at depot uplifted.
Survey: Have a web strategy if you want to get on to traditional media in Indonesia
Early this year the Mavericks asked themselves a question: “How would Indonesian journalists prefer to be contacted in such a connected world?” In the old days, if you had a press conference or were pitching a story you either faxed them or called them on the phone. Then there came email and SMS. Today we also have, on top of these channels YM, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Koprol…to get in touch. So what’s their preference?
Everyone had a hunch, but no one knew for certain.
The idea, however, grew and soon we were talking about conducting a Technographics survey of Indonesian journalists, to find out how they use and consume social media. So we hooked up with the Research Center of the London School of PR and conducted a survey of Indonesian journalists. We sent out invites to journalists in 141 media houses and used Survey Monkey. A total of 320 journalists responded to the questionnaires.
The results did not surprise those attuned to social media developments and journalists in Indonesia but it confirmed many hunches. The bottom line is that Indonesian journalists are an extremely plugged in lot where social media is concerned and if you are a business or a PR practitioner who hope to have continued (traditional) media coverage, you’d better have a Web strategy and be part of the journalists’ social media networks or be out in the cold.
Some of the results of the survey:
- almost all of the respondents (96.1 percent) said they logged in to the Internet every day, the others varied between once every three and five days
- 71 percent aid they used the internet as a source of story ideas and tipoffs
- 39.3 percent said they would repost their stories that appeared in their publications onto their own blogs
- Most of the journalists (70.3 percent) run blogs with 23.3 percent going to the trouble of having self-hosted blogs
- 72.1percent said they daily visited social network sites such as facebook, Friendster and Multiply
- 95.4 percent of respondents said they had facebook account
- 56.6 percent aid they had a Twitter account (a number that probably has increased since September when we completed the survey)
- Almost all journalists aid that they trawled the Net for information of news tipoffs through news portals, email (88 percent), social networks (72.3 percent), mailing lists (61.2 percent) Instant Messenger (61 percent), corporate websites (51.4 percent), mocroblogs such as Plurk and Twitter (39.7 percent), blogs (37.3 percent) and online forums such as Kaskus and Fotografer.net (31.4 percent)
For more information, read the article by Ndorokakung below in Tempo. You could always contact us as well.
Jurnalis Suka Mengintip Jurnalis Lain
2010 | Wicaksono | BlogKomentar [3]
Jurnalis dan Internet ibarat ikan dan air. Keduanya nyaris tak terpisahkan. Bagi wartawan, tiada hari tanpa berselancar di mayantara. Dalam survei yang dilakukan oleh Research Center London School of Public Relations dan Maverick, terungkap 96,1 persen jurnalis mengakses Internet setiap hari, 2,3 persen 3 hari sekali, dan hanya 1,6 persen 5 hari sekali.
Hasil survei itu diumumkan Rabu lalu. Survei dilakukan pada Juni-September 2010 dengan jumlah responden 320 jurnalis dari 141 media di seluruh Indonesia. Ini adalah survei pertama tentang pola aktivitas wartawan Indonesia dalam menggunakan Internet dan jejaring sosial. Hasil survei tersebut penting bagi industri, terutama kalangan perhumasan dan pemasar, juga semua pihak yang ingin mengetahui hubungan antara wartawan dan Internet.
Apa saja yang dilakukan jurnalis di Internet? Sebanyak 93 persen responden membaca dan mengirim e-mail, mencari informasi/berita/referensi tentang pekerjaan (91,5 persen), bersosialisasi (87,2 persen), mencari info untuk keperluan pribadi (76,1 persen), memonitor kegiatan media atau wartawan media lain 75,4 persen, iseng dan mengisi waktu 51,1 persen, bermain game 17,6 persen, serta berbelanja 3,6 persen.
via Jurnalis Suka Mengintip Jurnalis Lain : Blog Tempo Interaktif.
Echo chamber political advisors
You have to wonder at the quality of political advisors in this country. Sometimes, you wonder if they understand politics at all, in spite of their much vaunted reputations as consummate image makers.
The latest victim of bad political advice is Sandiaga Uno, the clean-cut and sensitive looking candidate for the Kadin chairmanship. As we all now know, Sandiaga did not even go into the second round of voting on Saturday night. He came in a distant third in a field of five candidates. This is a shame as someone with Sandiaga’s image and reputation deserves better and his Indonesia Setara campaign had tapped into a strong undercurrent in society (for a first hand report go here).
Political analysts will point out many reasons why Sandiaga did not win, chief of them because of alleged massive vote buying at the business caucus. It may have been so but that’s not so much Unspun‘s concern, which is more on Sandiaga’s political communications. Here, he bombed out with the online community on Wednesday night last week when he invited a group of bloggers to witness ostensibly the launch of his Indonesia Setara campaign.
The bloggers went there to witness the launch of the campaign and a chance to speak personally to Sandiaga but when they got there they felt duped because the event was actually an announcement of his campaign for the Kadin charimanship. The bloggers also felt doubly duped when they were shoved a press release claiming that “hundreds of technopreneurs and bloggers endorsed his candidacy for Kadin chairmanship”.
And to add insult to injury, the liaison officer later offered envelops of money to the bloggers. Within minutes, the bloggers who were there started Tweeting critically about Sandiaga and Indonesia Setara. When uberblogger Twitterer and blogger Ndoro Kakung joined in the conversation, what could be assured was that hundreds, if not thousands, of Tweeps got to know of these shenanigans.
The result was potential damage to Sandiaga’s heretofore pristine image. Did it affect his chances at the Kadin chairmanship election?
Unlikely if you look at the Kadin voting structure:
At the Kadin caucus, the decision makers are a small group. The power to vote the next chairman resides in each of Kadin’s 33 regional chapters that are entitled to three votes each. Another 30 votes are divided among Indonesia’s 180 business associations, grouped into 12 sectors.
What are the chances of these delegates being influenced by what goes on in the Blogosphere and Twitterland? Theirs is a world where influence is secured, traded and lost in smoke-filled hotel rooms and suites in Hotel Mulia. Practical considerations – some say money – but certainly political favors and alliances are the currency among these guys and gals, not something as ephemeral as reutations shaped in the ether of online communications. It is no accident that Indonesia does not have the equivalent of a Huffington Post or any prominent political bloggers. (more…)
Now Mozilla thinks that something’s stirring in online Indonesia
Briefly met with Gen Kanai, Mozilla’s Director of Business Development in Asia, courtesy of an introduction by Enda. Glad to know that his visit has resulted in the report below, again affirming that things are becoming hot in Indonesia where the online activity is concerned.
Mozilla in Indonesia 2010
June 29th, 2010 by Gen Kanai
Introduction
I spent a week in Jakarta in late May, starting to learn about the Indonesian web/Internet market. I had planned to go to Indonesia in 2009 but my schedule prevented it and in hindsight, I wish that I had gone sooner.
It’s clear that as of this year, 2010, the Indonesian Internet/web market is exploding, most obviously with Yahoo!’s acquisition of the Indonesian startup Koprol.com, but also further movements that have been less visible such as non-Indonesian venture capital firms moving into the country and starting to make their first investments.
TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy, who was in Indonesia around the same time I was filed these stories which provide additional perspectives into the Internet market in Indonesia: What the Hell Is Going on in Indonesia? and Is “Remarkable Indonesia” the New “Incredible India” for Investors?
via Mozilla in Asia » Blog Archive » Mozilla in Indonesia 2010.
