Old Practice in a New Era: Rasa as the Basis of Self-Censorship in Kompas Daily Newspaper

Strategies of ideological polarisation in the online news media: A social actor analysis of Megawati Soekarnoputri

“…They assert that due to time and resource constraints and a precarious job market, freelancers selfcensor, and avoid engaging in in-depth investigative journalism in order to maintain opportunities to work and meet deadlines. In Indonesian newsrooms, self-censorship also prevails; not only as a legacy of the 32 years of political oppression of the authoritarian New Order regime that ended in 1998, but also because of pressure on journalists from powerful alliances between national media conglomerates, business and political parties (Haryanto, 2010;Ida, 2009;Steele, 2013;Tapsell, 2012;Wijayanto, 2015). Further constraining journalistic freedom in the digital era, the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) law contains a provision criminalising defamation and insult on the internet (Balfas, 2014).…”