Press Council Research Articles

Crime News Broadcasting in the Framework of Protection of the Rights of Suspects/Defendants

Crime news broadcasts on television are a part of press freedom to disseminate information to the public through printed or electronic media. Information delivery through electronic media such as television, particularly crime news, presents overviews of criminal events as if the audiences witness it straight from the crime scene. It shows the fact that. one on hand, crime news is broadcast widely on private television stations, while on the other hand there are rules for broadcasting crime news as regulated in Law Number 40 of 1999 on Press and Law Number 32 of 2002 on Broadcasting. Laws on press and broadcasting also regulate the establishment of Press Council that determines ‘journalist code of ethics’ and the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) which sets the ‘broadcast program standards and broadcasting behavior guidelines’. These institutions supervise news or broadcasting as well as individuals or broadcasters that violate broadcasting rules or code of ethics. Crime news broadcasting that displays the face and identity of suspects or defendants is a violation to the principle of ‘Presumption of innocence’, that an individual should be assumed or considered innocent until the court proves that he/she is guilty. Crime news broadcasts impose effects on the suspects or defendants in receiving ‘due process of law’, and on the public prosecutor and judge investigating the case. Therefore, crime news broadcasting should be sought to not violate the code of ethics or rules as well as the rights of suspects or defendants.

EFEKTIVITAS PENERAPAN ASAS PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE OLEH PERS DALAM PEMBERITAAN TINDAK PIDANA MAKAR

This study aims to determine the extent to which the effectiveness of the application of the principle of the Presumption Of Innocence by the Press in conductin a report, especially on treason crime. Primary data source research methods in the form of literature study, legislation and journals and other literature, secondary data sources in the form of interviews from research sources. Data collection method is a qualitative data collection method that focuses on the general principles underlying the manifestation of symptom units in human life, or the patterns analyzed are social phenomena by using the culture of the community concerned to obtain a picture of prevailing patterns. Method of presenting data obtained or data collected during the study in the form of primary data and secondary data were analyzed qualitatively then presented descriptively.
 Based on research and discussion of the main issues raised in this thesis, namely that the press or journalists must abide by the presumption of innocence in presenting news and information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, obeying journalistic code of ethics so that violations do not occur and as law enforcement efforts carried out by the press. The press council as the agency that oversees the press must conduct more oversight of the media and the press in Indonesia.

NILAI BERITA PADA PEMBERITAAN BISNIS PORTAL BERTUAHPOS.COM

News value is one of the compulsory components in news, be it print media (newspapers, tabloids), electronic media (television, radio) or online media. PT. Citra Media Bertuah or Bertuahpos.com is one of the online media in Pekanbaru that focuses on business news as much as 75%. Bertuahpos.com is also one of 300 online media in Riau which has been verified as actual and factual by the Press Council. In its implementation there are still some news which according to the author is not comprehensive because it does not contain news value properly. This research method is a qualitative descriptive analysis. In this study the authors searched through documentation in the form of theoretical data from books, document data in the form of formal notes, news portal bertuahpos.com related to the discussion of this thesis, internet and so on with regard to the title. Observations were also made to the Bertuahpos office to meet references regarding supporting data in completing this thesis. The results of this study indicate that Bertuahpos has applied news values ​​greatly. Of the 23 news stories that the author studied, there are at least 7 news values ​​that have been applied by Bertuahpos from 8 news values ​​from Hariris, Leiter and Johnson which are indicators of the author's research. The 7 news values ​​are actual, important, progress, closeness, impact, conflict, and humane.

Bhagwat Award Abstracts for Journal

BackgroundResponsible media reporting is one of the effective population-level suicide prevention strategies. This is the first study exploring quality of newspaper reporting in West Bengal, an eastern state of India with high prevalence of suicides.Methods A deductive content analysis was performed in articles reporting suicide deaths from seven leading newspapers of West Bengal (WB), based on circulation (study period: six months. Quality of reporting included adherence to the WHO 2018 and Press Council of India (PCI) 2019 guidelines.Results 499 articles were retrieved. Most were brief and not in the headlines. The average number of articles per week was 2.6. While 77.1% of articles had potentially harmful characteristics, 50.2% also reported helpful features based on the WHO guidelines. 39% of the articles did not follow PCI guidelines. 70% of articles linked suicide to mental health, however it was often a direct link and monocausal. Details of location, assumptions, misinformation and interviews of bereaved were common. Even though two-thirds of articles contained statements from professionals; research data and prevention strategies were rare.Conclusion Quality of media reporting in WB was a mixed bag, with scope for improvement. Recommendations for constructive suicide reporting are highlighted based on these findings.

Influence of Commercialism on the Contents of the Indian Media: An Enquiry

No one will engage in a dispute that the media have to make profits for survival. Indian media are no exception in this regard. On one hand, it is expected that a media will be sustainable from the stand point of commerce and on the other, follow the path of the interest of commerce considering the profiteering motif only would be unsound and thoughtless for it. It indicates media’s bypassing of the social responsibility and commitment to the society. The objectives of the owners of media are to run media as trade and exercise it for satisfying the interests of their other merchandizes and upholding the culture of spirit of trade and commerce. The aims and objectives of this Paper are to enquire about how commercialism has affected the contents of the media in India. The Paper has followed the Observational and Analytical Method for this enquiry. The misleading trend can be reversed by strengthening the institution of internal ombudsman, the internal mechanism of editorial freedom, formulating a code of conduct for journalists from within the profession and taking initiative to ensure that the guidelines of the Press Council of India are adhered to. Above all, journalists should always remember that media is a public utility service and they are unofficial public servants. Similarly, the fact that the primary objective of media is service and not profit should not be forgotten by the media management. While media should be economically viable, the profit motive should not blind owners and proprietors of the media to perform their role of the social accountability. Therefore, the success of a media-outlet is determined by a correct blending of economic interests, social commitments and professional integrity.

Ethically portraying children in the media. A comparative perspective over 22 European Press Councils’ Codes of Ethics

"The study analyses the journalistic codes of ethics proposed by the press councils’ members of the Alliance of Independent Press Councils of Europe (AIPCE) that set the foundation for the media representation and treatment of minors in their respective countries. The current research conducted by performing a textual analysis of the above-mentioned documents casts a comparative perspective over the definition of the child and young adult, as provided by these codes of practice, as well as over two of the most common instances in which media portray children, namely as criminals/ delinquents and as victims of criminal activity. Keywords: child, minor, crime, victim, media ethics."

Inaccuracy within Online Journalism in Indonesia

<em><span>Many scholars have conducted studies on the accuracy of the news media, such as newspaper, television, and magazine, but not online media. In fact, online media is a significant news media in the moment, especially in Indonesia. Online press companies are even the largest press companies in Indonesia compared to newspapers, radio, and television. Therefore, this study is conducted to measure the inaccuracies that occur in news in online news media. Researchers examined 63 online journalistic media that have been administratively and factually verified by the ‘Dewan Pers’ (Press Council). It uses a content analysis method by coding the headlines in Indonesian online journalistic media. This study finds online mass media categories based on the theme segmentation, namely: 1) general, 2) economics, technology, and business, 3) sports, 4) politics, law, and crime, 5) lifestyle and entertainment, and 6) regional. The results of this study indicate that the inaccuracy of news in Indonesian online media is high. Media with economics, technology, and business most often make grammatical errors. This study also finds that speed does not only has an impact on grammatical inaccuracies, but also on unbalanced news reporting, where the imbalance in Indonesian online media news itself is very high.</span></em>

Implementation of Development Journalism in the Reformation Era (The Case Study of Behavioral Change Journalism Fellowship Program from the Press Council during the Covid-19 Pandemic)

The reform era marked by the fall of the New Order government bring changes in all aspects, including the development journalism in Indonesia. The development journalism has ever become a prima donna and it has submerged along with the emergence of journalism that positions journalists as the guardians of the public interest, such as anticorruption journalism, pro-gender journalism, budgeting , election journalism, children's journalism and data journalism. On the other hand, the development journalism has begun to be rarely discussed. One of the reasons for this journalism seems to place journalists as pawns for the interests of the government. In the middle of Covid-19 pandemic era, however, the development journalism in a different version from the New Order era is used again. The government through the behavioral change journalism fellowship program places journalists as an agency to encourage people's behavior change when encountering the Covid-19 pandemic. The program is carried out by the Indonesian Press Council in collaboration with the Covid-19 Task Force and it involves 3030 journalists who have received recommendations from the constituent members of the Indonesian Press Council from various media platforms that have been carried out since 2020. The involvement of the journalists in this behavioral change program is the implementation of the development journalism that positions journalists as an agency. This study shows that the liveliness of journalists as an agency in responding to the structures is carried out to find the momentum of change to various issues in the society. This liveliness is intended that there is no monopoly of information from the power structure and it provides various opportunities for the public to obtain favourable information and avoid monopoly of information from the structure. The activities of this agency can no longer place the journalists with their activities into resonance, an irritation for the government in carrying out its programs. People's behavioral change is required in the middle of Covid-19 pandemic era. Efforts to encourage behavioral change cannot be merely conducted by the government. Journalists are one of the agents of change and they are cooperating with the government. This is in line with the implementation of the development journalism which places journalists as the government partners to encourage the government programs. The agency's involvement in its relationship with the power structure related to the COVID-19 pandemic does not bring down the ruling government but they will help explain to the public the problems the government is facing regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: THE SOCIAL WRONGS REVEALED & THE IDEOLOGIES BROUGHT IN EDITORIAL NEWS EXPOSING THE NEW KPK LAW

This research is a comparative analysis between two mass media in producing politic news responding to the establishment of the new KPK law by using Critical Discourse Analysis. The research aims to look for and to compare the social wrongs and ideologies brought by the writers from the chosen texts. In order to do critical analysis discourse, the researchers use Fairclough analytic-three-dimensional framework which is wrapped in the four stages of Roy Bhaskar explanatory critiques presented by Fairclough (2013).The first stage focuses on the social wrong which has semiotic aspects that is analyzed through its linguistic choice by using Appraisal theory proposed by Martin and White. The social wrong of the text is represented by the use of attitude consisting of affect, appreciation, and judgment as it shows the writers’ attitude towards the related parties in the texts. The second stage identifies the obstacles to it being tackled through the analysis of the network of practices, the relationship of the semiosis to other elements and the semiosis itself. It is analyzed using Gee’s Seven Building Tasks of Language. It aims to analyze the areas of “reality” that are built through the texts, which can be used to understand the meaning of the discourse. It may also be used to understand different aspects of the meaning being created through discourse. The ideology of the text is represented by the significances, activities, identities, relationships, politics, connections, and sign systems & knowledge in the texts. The third stage considers whether the social order needs the problems/the social wrong. The last stage reveals the possible ways to tackle the obstacles. The findings from these steps of analysis are combined and interpreted together. It is found that the article produced by The Jakarta Post, as a verified news editorial by the Indonesian Press Council, apparently seems to share more negative attitudes compared to Independent Observer which is not verified yet. This shows the social wrong establishes in the social order: the politicization of the media, which is clearly unnecessary in the social order since it makes the media are politically polarized. Despite the ideological differences in the two articles, both articles basically share the same ideology: the importance of eradicating corruption in Indonesia.

Mining of Opinions on COVID-19 Large-Scale Social Restrictions in Indonesia: Public Sentiment and Emotion Analysis on Online Media.

BackgroundOne of the successful measures to curb COVID-19 spread in large populations is the implementation of a movement restriction order. Globally, it was observed that countries implementing strict movement control were more successful in controlling the spread of the virus as compared with those with less stringent measures. Society’s adherence to the movement control order has helped expedite the process to flatten the pandemic curve as seen in countries such as China and Malaysia. At the same time, there are countries facing challenges with society’s nonconformity toward movement restriction orders due to various claims such as human rights violations as well as sociocultural and economic issues. In Indonesia, society’s adherence to its large-scale social restrictions (LSSRs) order is also a challenge to achieve. Indonesia is regarded as among the worst in Southeast Asian countries in terms of managing the spread of COVID-19. It is proven by the increased number of daily confirmed cases and the total number of deaths, which was more than 6.21% (1351/21,745) of total active cases as of May 2020.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to explore public sentiments and emotions toward the LSSR and identify issues, fear, and reluctance to observe this restriction among the Indonesian public.MethodsThis study adopts a sentiment analysis method with a supervised machine learning approach on COVID-19-related posts on selected media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube). The analysis was also performed on COVID-19-related news contained in more than 500 online news platforms recognized by the Indonesian Press Council. Social media posts and news originating from Indonesian online media between March 31 and May 31, 2020, were analyzed. Emotion analysis on Twitter platform was also performed to identify collective public emotions toward the LSSR.ResultsThe study found that positive sentiment surpasses other sentiment categories by 51.84% (n=1,002,947) of the total data (N=1,934,596) collected via the search engine. Negative sentiment was recorded at 35.51% (686,892/1,934,596) and neutral sentiment at 12.65% (244,757/1,934,596). The analysis of Twitter posts also showed that the majority of public have the emotion of “trust” toward the LSSR.ConclusionsPublic sentiment toward the LSSR appeared to be positive despite doubts on government consistency in executing the LSSR. The emotion analysis also concluded that the majority of people believe in LSSR as the best method to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission. Overall, Indonesians showed trust and expressed hope toward the government’s ability to manage this current global health crisis and win against COVID-19.

Ethics on the Beat: An Analysis of Ethical Breaches Across News Beats from 1999 to 2019

ABSTRACT This article examines press ethics across different news beats. Traditionally, studies of news beats have focused on the development, output or routines of a particular news beat, but few studies have focused on press ethics. In Denmark, the debate on press ethics began in the 1930s and has often focused on the crime beat. Today, the “Advisory rules of sound press ethics” apply to all content produced by leading news media and are under the supervision of the Press Council. We analyse rulings from the Press Council from 1999 to 2019 to investigate if and how breaches of press ethics differ across news beats. We find that out of 3406 complaints, 764 have led to rulings that criticise specific news media for ethical violations. We code each violation according to news beat, finding that breaches most often concern the business beat, the crime beat, and the health and social beat. We also find that the types of ethical breaches differ across beats. Thus, the most common breach within the business beat is not following up on a ruling from the Press Council, whereas the most common breach in crime reporting is the unnecessary identification of persons mentioned in crime stories.

HANDLING OF PRESS CRIMES

The purpose of this study is to outline the procedure of handling crimes committed by the press. This study was analyzed using qualitative description by conducting a literature study of the problems outlined. The results of this study revealed that the handling of crimes committed by the press has its own uniqueness compared to other criminal handling. While there is no special event law for law enforcement for press criminal cases, there are certain procedures that must be bypassed. Law enforcement, police, prosecutors, and judges—should pay attention to these unique procedures. The flow of handling of press crimes is the submission of rights of responsibility, complaints of the press council, complaints to the police, investigations, investigations, prosecutions, court hearings

HANDLING OF PRESS CRIMES

The purpose of this study is to outline the procedure of handling crimes committed by the press. This study was analyzed using qualitative description by conducting a literature study of the problems outlined. The results of this study revealed that the handling of crimes committed by the press has its own uniqueness compared to other criminal handling. While there is no special event law for law enforcement for press criminal cases, there are certain procedures that must be bypassed. Law enforcement, police, prosecutors, and judges—should pay attention to these unique procedures. The flow of handling of press crimes is the submission of rights of responsibility, complaints of the press council, complaints to the police, investigations, investigations, prosecutions, court hearings

The Collaboration in Socializing Policies of Covid-19 Pandemic

Role of regional government in socializing the policy produced by SKPD of this local government is an obligation for every apparatus to socialize that policy so that the society, as the main receiver of the related polciy, will get their rights and obligations properly. The communication of regional government in this research can be discussed in more explicit regarding the flow of that communication delivery from the government to the community. The method used in this research was decriptive with qualitative approach and applied the theory of Edward III to see the stages of communication in its role in socializing the policy of the Government of South Tangerang City. Those types of socialization media were main instruments of regional government pf South Tangerang to socialize policies. There was another type of socialization namely direct media or socializing to every neighbourhood. The conclusion of this research was that the socializing of policies has been conducting through various types of media; online, printed, and electronics. The Office of Communication and Informatics of South Tangerang City played its role also in regards to socialization by cooperating with Press Councils to monitor the behaviors of media. It is suggested that th e Government of South Tangerang City keeps improving their performance in socializing policies so that these will reach the purposes of the policies produced in order to build law order society towards the policies made.

The Role of The Press Council in Enforcement of The Press Law

This study aims to examine the role of the press council in enforcing the press law and journalistic code of ethics where digital developments are currently very developed, especially media that utilize new media platforms. Not all online mass media are legal entities and not all news that is conveyed through online media follows a journalistic code of ethics, giving rise to overlapping perceptions and activities due to the lack of understanding of journalists and the public in the midst of easy access to information. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach with a case study method, data collection is collected through observation and documentation sourced from literature and document studies that examine the phenomenon of digitalization dynamics around press laws and journalistic codes of ethics. There are a number of efforts from the press council, including enforcing the press law on online mass media by carrying out a number of verification processes including administrative verification, factual verification and content verification. The third verification cannot be carried out because of the constraints of human resources and budget. A mass media that receives a report will be handled and mediated by the press council if the mass media is already a legal entity. Meanwhile, the enforcement of the press code of ethics is carried out by first classifying journalism activities based on whether the mass media is a legal entity or not, then screening complaints of violations of the code of ethics, and reprimanding the problematic mass media to apologize and clarify the misinformation that has been published.

ANALISIS PENGGUNAAN MEDIA SOSIAL DALAM MITIGASI BENCANA BANJIR DI DKI JAKARTA TAHUN 2020

This study aims to explain how the use of twitter in disseminating disaster information in order to increase public awareness of natural disasters, namely the twitter account @BPBDJakarta. The research method used is qualitative research with descriptive analysis techniques using Twitter content analysis, one of the government-owned social media accounts using the Nvivo 12 Plus application. In addition, the research also uses data triangulation to obtain the required data. The source is obtained from information from credible online newspapers that have been registered with the press council, so that the information submitted can be justified. The results of this study conclude that the Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency's twitter account coordinates all units involved in disaster management. The information posted by BPBD DKI Jakarta on its twitter account is a form of disaster management stages which include pre-disaster (preparedness, early warning and mitigation), during a disaster (emergency response and disaster management), and post-disaster (rehabilitation and reconstruction). The contribution of hastags twitter on the Twitter account of the Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency for flood disaster mitigation in this case this Twitter account acts as a government medium to listen to information obtained from # hashtags that often appear on its twitter account.

Application of a Scorecard Tool for Assessing and Engaging Media on Responsible Reporting of Suicide-Related News in India.

Background: Each year there are more than 800,000 deaths by suicide across the world, while India alone accounts for one third of female suicides and one fourth of male suicides worldwide. Responsible media reporting of suicide is an important suicide prevention intervention at the population level. There is sufficient evidence to show that the way suicide is reported and portrayed in the media can have a significant impact on individuals experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Recognizing the important role of the media in suicide prevention, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued guidelines for responsible reporting of suicides by the media. The Press Council of India, in 2019 endorsed WHO’s guidelines for media reporting of suicides, however there is no evidence that the Indian media is complying with these guidelines. Methods: To encourage responsible media reporting, we developed a scorecard to assess and rate media reports on suicide. We reviewed several resource documents that contained guidelines on responsible reporting of suicide. After consulting with a team of experts, we arrived at a scorecard that consisted of 10 positive and 10 negative parameters. Results: We applied the scorecard to 1318 reports on suicide from 9 English language newspapers, with the highest readership in India between the dates of 1 April to 30 June 2020. For the articles analyzed, the average positive score across all newspapers was 1.32 and the average negative score was 3.31. Discussion: The scorecard can be a useful tool to assess media reports on suicide and provide metrics for the same. It can facilitate improved monitoring and engagement with media organizations, who can quickly check their own reporting compliance to the WHO guidelines and compare how well they are performing compared to their peers over time.

Why the MEAA left the Press Council and why that matters

Why the MEAA left the Press Council and why that matters

Suicide Reporting Guideline by Press Council of India: Utility and Lacunae.

Suicide Reporting Guideline by Press Council of India: Utility and Lacunae.

Repressive Political Communication through Legal Products to Preserve Ideology of Jokowi's Government

The fundamental value of democracy is civil liberties to express an opinion, assembly, and organization. Data from various institutions observing Indonesian democracy show that since Jokowi's leadership, Indonesia has had problems with civil liberties, from previously free to partly free, thus falling into the flawed category of democracy. The decline in civil liberties was triggered by the Jokowi administration's repressive political communications manifested in the form of repressive legal products. These repressive legal products are used to suppress critical opposition groups who are at odds with the Jokowi administration. This study uses a critical paradigm based on qualitative methods that utilize the theory of Political Discourse Analysis (PDA). The research objective is to reveal the various repressive legal products of the Jokowi administration as well as to explain the context, history, power, and ideology behind the production of these repressive laws. The object of study related to repressive legal products is limited to online news published by media verified by the Press Council. The results of the study concluded that the Jokowi administration presented repressive legal products to perpetuate power and smooth the implementation of capitalist neoliberal ideology.