Journalist Andreas Harsono, recipient of Maverick’s Click of the Year Award for journalist-bloggers, ponders how journalists should cover a story of religious bigotry in Pontianak.(Thanks to reader Bonar for the link)
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How do you cover racial bigotry?
4 responses to “How do you cover racial bigotry?”
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The title questions the coverage of racial bigotry but the actual piece is about religious bigotry? Is this a curious typo, language mixup or just traffic generating lingo? Religious bigotry and racial bigotry are different things.
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@marcg: Th article is about racial bigotry, except in that part of the world race and religion is so intertwined it is sometimes difficult to separate them. That is because, in the world view of the Melayu champions Malays are Muslims and vice versa. In Malaysia, just across the border this twinning of religion and race is even enshrined in the Constitution. Ridiculous but true. See the rasa Sayang threads in this blog for Michael Chick’s explanation about Contesting Malayness.
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this is sad… Indonesia should be considered lucky to have so many ethnic … what if javanese in manado are banned speaking java ? so low!
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And I though the madura’s is the ethnic group most disliked in pontianak.
I never really get it why people are arguing about such a shallow topic. For me, religion is such a personal matter, we don’t have a say in other people religion.
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