
Ashadi Siregar
The hegemony of the New Order state was established through the abusive use of press and moreover leave the press in a political inertia. The attempt to dismantle the hegemony shall rely on an underst...

Agus Sudibyo
The rapid and deep changing of the media requires new approach in media studies in Indonesia. The cutently predominating positivism is inadequate. The article advocates the use of a critical political...

Akhmad Zaini Abar
Mass media become a subject in itself and hence deserve a treatment more than just instrument for communicating This article offers etno-media a new sub-field of media studies.

Susilastuti D. N.
Freedom of the press suprisingly, demand the existence of controlling capacity of the press. The idea, however, is not to restraint the exercise of the freedom. Rather it is ment to keep thepress main...

Pitra Narendra
The mode of production and consumPtion of the advanced capitalism are marked by the presence of the symbolic product. The advent of the symbolic product cannot dissociated from the changing human cons...

Hermin Indah Wahyuni๏ช
The withdrawal of state domination does not necessarily lead to the institutionalization of market. Freedom of information also requires a new kind of societal conduct. Indonesia currcntly faces tensi...

Riswandha Imawan
In response to a widespread pressure for political reform, the military has abandon its predominant role in Indonesian politics in the past Yet the incompetence of civilian politician to govern a deep...

Afan Gaffar
The attempt to question the legitimacy of President Abdurrahman Wahid has led to reemergence of the idea of having a direct election for the filling the President post, instead of having an indirect e...

Abubakar E. Hara
Democratization in Southeast Asian countries is often perceived as transforming the countries into a kind of Western liberal democracy. By using Indonesian case, this paper, however, shows that this p...

Miftah Thoha
Normatively speaking bureaucratic reform is bound to be sensitive to the need for democratization, plurality and the advancement of information technology and global competition. Examination through s...

Cornelis Lay, Amalinda Savirani
Constitutional reform is one of the most important ways undertaken by some transitional regime to establish a democratic government. This kind of reform has many models. In Spain i t is called reforma...

Ganjar Nugroho
Raders, surely, are engaging economic activity based on the principle of pursuing their own self interest. The notion of self interest, however, is socially constructed. Observation at Mojokuto market...

Cornelis Lay
A critical analysis of how the New Order state has established its power basis and how the power has been utilised and abused leads us to conclude that anarchy is a rational response to the states act...

Purwo Santoso
This article is ment to be the introduction to the special edition of this Journal. It outlines the discussion on the issue of violent and empowerment within the context of institutionalising a democr...

Kusuma Sp
A minor incident in Ambon has easily trigerred a massive and long lasting conflict. This, from a sociological account, is understandable given the fact the community has suffice condition for explosii...

Bambang Hudayana
This paper underlines the importance of local culture as a basis to empowerthe Indonesian society which, during the era globalization and the late of capitalism attempt to engage in a process of refor...

J. Nasikun
The multifacet and multilayers of crisis that Indonesia has been suffering from requires a deep reflection on how it come about and a fundamental transformation. This article attempts to offer a refle...

I. Gusti Ngurah Putra
Democray as communicative action involving the ruler and ruled is underthread by the increasingly popular ide of mass media privatization. The supposedly efficent mode of marked-based system, in fact,...
Akhir-akhir ini terlihat semacam isyarat yang mengarah kepada kemungkinan akan terjadinya disintegrasi dalam kehidupan bangsa . Isyarat ini semakin kuat denyutnya dalam detak jantung kehidupan politik...

Mohamad Agus S. Lahida
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