Two Sun over One Firmament Culture: A Political-Communication Analysis on the Contestation of Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur over “Indonesian Malay Communities”

Evie Ariadne Shinta Dewi,B Mohamad,H Abu Bakar

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20173300013

Abstract

This paper tries to extent a personal experience on an interesting discussion concerning the communication issues in Medan, North Sumatra. There is the inclination of the North Sumatrans to the news broadcasted by Kuala Lumpur and Medan’s tends to identify with its cultural similarities. For Jakarta is officially the center of political authority over the ‘Indonesian Malay Communities’, this dual cultural loyalty creates an imaginary phenomenon: ‘Two Suns’ in term of authoritative news resources that applies upon ‘One Firmament Culture’. This means that there is a divided news orientation among the Indonesian Malay Communities’ that put Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur in a tacit contestation. While until today this kind of contestation is still going on, the same features have brought me to the phenomenon of hierarchical communication structure. This vividly seen when we realize how lopsided is in nature the communication relations between the global authorities who have controlled the strategic means of communications as well as their contents with the rest of the world. For, in exception to technological matters, the Kuala Lumpurinclined of ‘the Indonesian Malay Communities’ in communication practices is based more on cultural aspects than their technical and political necessities words.

Highlights

There something stuck the thought of an interesting fact related to dual cultural loyalty that prevails within the people of North Sumatra as by Gelora Viva, Head of Postel Infocomm Department of North Sumatra office: “Di Sumatera Utara ini posisinya dekat dengan Malaysia, sedangkan Jakarta tidak
This, at its turn, creates a kind of dual cultural loyalty within this people. It is at this juncture, it deserves to raise a conceptual question: Is the Jakarta’s influence ―as a center of government and the center of national political authority― penetrative enough, on the matters of spreading cultural information, into its national peripheral areas, especially in North Sumatra?
Would be going much smoothly, because the shared cultural values running within the core geographical boundaries of Indonesia. When this perspective is used to see the North Sumatran and its adjacent peoples whom would call them as, “the Indonesia’s Malay communities”, we would fine an interesting phenomenon in terms of cultural communication and cultural loyalty

Summary

Introduction

Medan ini malah dibandingkan dengan pilkada di Malaysia tidak dibandingkan dengan Jakarta. This, at its turn, creates a kind of dual cultural loyalty within this people It is at this juncture, it deserves to raise a conceptual question: Is the Jakarta’s influence ―as a center of government and the center of national political authority― penetrative enough, on the matters of spreading cultural information, into its national peripheral areas, especially in North Sumatra?. Would be going much smoothly, because the shared cultural values running within the core geographical boundaries of Indonesia When this perspective is used to see the North Sumatran and its adjacent peoples whom would call them as, “the Indonesia’s Malay communities”, we would fine an interesting phenomenon in terms of cultural communication and cultural loyalty. By going deeper into this subject matter, I think the scene is worth enough to be shared here

Global power and the lopsided communication contestation

Cultural Contestation between Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur

Conclusions