CULTURE IN GLOCALIZATION PROCESS: A STUDY OF INDONESIAN NEWSPAPERS

Fikry Zahria Emeraldien

doi:10.33021/exp.v1i2.459

Abstract

Abstract - The present study examines the construction of global to the local content in Indonesian newspapers after New Order Era, Indonesia former President Suharto’s regime that was ended in 1998. In the so-called Reform Era, Indonesia entered a new phase of democratization which brings democracy towards newspapers and other media. Compared to the New Order Era, Indonesian newspapers currently have more variation in term of content, especially for entertainment. After employing a content analysis, Indonesian newspapers, which are Kompas and Jawa Pos, through their cross-cultural news in the entertainment section, are proved become more open to the other cultures. They have transformed from dominantly homogeneous -in 2004- to hybrid -in 2014- within glocalization, a perspective that can see micro-sociological phenomenon. This notion proves that glocalization does proceed, rather than keep constant, depending on the different cultural systems and structures, as well as the degree of local perception of glocalization. Keywords: Glocalization, globalization, pop culture, Indonesia Reform Era, crossculture

Highlights

Globalization is often seen from the macroscopic point of view
Answering the research question that is stated in the previous section, this proves an existence of significant transformation in the entertainment section of Indonesian newspapers in an interesting way, which the tested hypotheses are explained as follow: Test of Hypotheses
This study shows that the cross-cultural news in the entertainment section of Indonesian newspapers has different tendencies in presenting their content

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Introduction

Globalization is often seen from the macroscopic point of view. It is mostly studied in the economic, communication, and political areas (Dyczewski, 2012). For example, globalization process laid on the free flow of the capital, commodities, and services as well as technology in the integration of markets. It forms corporations with global dimensions such as IMF and the World Bank. No 2, November 2018 - 82 homogenization. In the opposite, it enhances cultural identity (Wang, 2007)

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