The pandemic of COVID-19 destabilizes contemporary social relations. It has many impacts and one of them is a stigma against the infected persons. Stigma usually pictures discriminate behavior toward victims of some diseases such as leprosy or HIV-AIDS and also marginalized groups such as class, age, gender. Most victims of stigma are individuals and communities or nations perceived as lower class than the rest of the population. On the contrary, the pandemic of COVID-19 shows different discrimination as it stigmatizes behavior toward most of the infected people including the well-off people, who struggle toward the virus, more especially doctors, nurses, and other medical assistants. By using personal experiences as a family with COVID-19 and the existing publications including media that cover the issue of the stigma, this article discusses the disrupted social relationships. Stigma emerged particularly in the process of burying the corpse of COVID-19 infected persons where some people of the local communities refuse the corpse to be buried in their area. In an extreme case, some people even dig out the dead bodies. These facts blow social relationships that doctors and other health assistants who are usually categorized as honored persons and in which our culture gives them homage to corpses as something should be treated respectfully. Individuals and communities' members fight to erase the stigmas at the national, and local levels. Governments at the national and local levels have to renovate hotels and other facilitates to give save houses for the infected COVID-19 as quarantine places.
Studi media di LIPI berjalan seiring dengan isu-isu yang hangat di jamannya. Dimulai tahun 1976 ketika pemerintah Orde Baru ingin menggunakan televisi sebagai alat pembangunan. Pemerintah memutuskan untuk memiliki Sistem Komunikasi Satelit Domestik agar siaran televisi bisa diakses oleh seluruh masyarakat Indonesia. Akses televisi yang luas dirancang untuk mempertahankan status quo dengan cara menyiarkan keberhasilan pemerintah. Kenyataannya televisi tidak hanya memiliki dampak positif, tetapi juga menimbulkan dampak negatif. Oleh karena itu, sejak akhir pemerintahan Orde Baru sampai awal runtuhnya Orde Baru, LIPI banyak melakukan studi media effect menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif. Setelah Orde Baru runtuh, sistem pemerintahan juga berubah dari sentralistis menjadi desentralistis. Media juga tumbuh menjadi institusi yang lebih demokratis. Pada saat yang sama, kapitalisasi media berkembang pesat. Industri media dikusasi oleh kapitalis dan hal ini kemudian berpengaruh kepada kebijakan dalam menentukan konten. Berkembanglah studistudi kritis seperti ekonomi politik media dan analisis wacana kritis. Ketika TIK berkembang, peran kapitalis dalam mengontrol konten mulai digeser oleh netters. Pada era ini, LIPI melakukan studi tentang masyarakat jaringan. Dengan demikian, pola perkembangan studi media di LIPI tidak jauh berbeda dengan yang terjadi di Amerika dan Eropa. Perubahan suatu rezim berpengaruh terhadap peran media yang pada akhirnya mempengaruhi tema studi. Bedanya, studi di LIPI lebih lambat antara 10-20 tahun dari perkembangan studi di Amerika dan Eropa.
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