Hermin Indah Wahyuni

EDITORIAL: Connecting the Pacific dots

When University of the South Pacific climate change scientist Elisabeth Holland gave a keynote address at the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference at Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, New Zealand, on February 2018, her message was simple but inspiring. In an address advocating ‘connecting the dots’ about the climate challenges facing the globe, and particularly the coral atoll microstates of the Asia-Pacific region, she called for ‘more Pacific research, by the Pacific and for the Pacific’. The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient, Professor Holland, director of the University of the South Pacific’s Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD), noted many of the global models drawn from average statistics were not too helpful for the specifics in the Pacific where climate change had already become a daily reality.

SISTEM KOMUNIKASI PEMERINTAH DAN KOMPLEKSITAS IKON KAMBING PE DI KABUPATEN PURWOREJO

ABSTRACT Ettawa Crossbred (EC) goat farming in Purworejo regency dated back to the era of Dutch colonial government. The Ministry of Farming was decided that EC as Purworejo’s local crossbred. But the farmers judge that EC not to be Purworejo’s icon. The farmers was judged that government not serious made EC as Purworejo’s icon. The aim of this research was to know how the government communication system produce and reproduce information to solve EC as Purworejo’s icon. The theory used in this research is communication system in the perspective of Niklas Luhmann. The research method used was explorative case study. Population of this study was conducted in Purworejo regency as the center of EC goat farming. The result of the study shows that government communication system was produced information in encountering the environmental complexity of EC as Purworejo’s icon. The information about statue of EC as signifier. Government communication system wasn’t produced the icons like EC products and gifts. The farmers was judged that government not serious to solved EC as Purworejo’ icon. The farmers through farmers group was produced icons like EC’s signifier and EC’s products (milk powder, caramel, yoghurt, and crackers). Keywords: government communication system, complexity, icon.

Digitisation in Indonesian Broadcasting: Detriment or Advantage? Public Perspective Analysis on Digitisation in the Indonesian Broadcasting Context

The digitisation process, i.e. the migration from analogue to digital, in Indonesia is still an ongoing process with a target date of completion by 2018. However, the job to implement the migration remains controversial. Many civil society stakeholders have many reasons to criticise the government’s choice in the digitalitzation of broadcasting. This paper is a descriptive research into the digitisation process in Indonesia until first quarter of 2013. It aims to: (a) describe the polemics between pro- and anti-stakeholders in Indonesia in response to the digitisation in Indonesia; and (b) discuss the latest developments in the digitisation process, as well as analyse the implication of this process from the perspective of public interests. The research used a qualitative approach in completing the paper.