Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Researchers from the Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG) announced the results of research that there are 12 major groups which controlled almost all media channels in Indonesia.
"The results of our research collaboration with nongovernmental organizations Hivos Southeast Asia shows that there are 12 major media groups who controlled Indonesia," said researcher CIPG Yanuar Nugroho accompanied by other researchers that Dinita Andriani Princess and Muhammad Fajri Siregar said here on Thursday.
He explained that the group is MNC Media Group, Java Post Group, Compass Group Scholastic, Mahaka Media Group, Crown Eagle Technology, CT Corp., Media Vision Asia, Media Group, MRA Media, Femina Group, Tempo Inti Media and Beritasatu Media Holding.
He said, although the concentration of media ownership, but such is not the monopoly of the industrial structure as it has serious implications in the context of the mediated public sphere.
The researchers, added Yanuar, considered that the concentration of ownership of an impact on editorial decisions not only through the intervention owner through the "agenda setting" mode of the media industry but also resulted because of the principle of uniformity of media content markets and pursue rating.
In that context, he said, the concentration of ownership could be caused by not specifically regulator.
"Public broadcasters such as TVRI and RRI should be an option to offset the private media in both the content and reach of the broadcast media industry forward so that when the commercial aspects of the news, public broadcasting should be able to perform more strategic and free of the interests of capital and sided with the public," he said.
Public aspirations are not accommodated in the mainstream media encourage the emergence of community media and online media alternatives though the development is hampered by a lack of regulatory support.
"Internet as one of hope for citizen participation in mediated through social networks and blogs are also hampered by its infrastructure inequality are still concentrated in the western part of Indonesia," he said.
CIPG and HIVOS research confirms that the distribution of media infrastructure and institutional strengthening of public media is a means to restore the mediated public sphere.
"Of course this needs to be supported by the government through appropriate media policy and public engagement in demanding their rights in a mediated," he said.
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