Reviewing Political Issue in Indonesia
Indonesia's
poll body fights back
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Marguerite Afra Sapiie
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
/ Wed, June 19, 2019 / 08:29 am
Little Avengers: Activists wearing costumes of Avengers
superheroes and Gatotkaca, a character from Javanese folklore, pose for a photo
with posters calling for peace near the Constitutional Court on Jl. Medan
Merdeka Barat in Central Jakarta on Tuesday to demonstrate against riots. The
rally participants, who are members of Koalisi Indonesia Rukun (Harmonious
Indonesia Coalition), made the decision to gather after the May 21-22
postelection riots. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
The legal battle over
the presidential election result is continuing at the Constitutional Court,
with the General Elections Commission (KPU) and incumbent President Joko
“Jokowi” Widodo rebutting all allegations of electoral fraud filed by
challenger Prabowo Subianto.
Tuesday saw lawyers
representing the two parties taking turns to point out that Prabowo and running
mate Sandiaga Uno — the plaintiffs in the case — had failed to present
strong arguments and evidence to back up their claim that there had been
“structured, systematic and massive fraud” to rig the election in Jokowi’s
favor.
By the court’s
definition, such electoral fraud was defined as a carefully planned violation
that structurally involved officials and election organizers, said Ali Nurdin,
a lawyer representing the KPU in the case.
Ali said Prabowo’s legal
team — which largely cited news reports as the basis of its arguments in the
lawsuit — had failed to elaborate on how the KPU was involved in the alleged
election-rigging attempts and how far the allegations were correlated to the
vote tally secured by each presidential candidate, he said.
The camp had also failed
to mention the relationship between the alleged fraud and how it had affected
voters as they exercised their right to vote for their preferred presidential
candidate, or how it had tarnished the quality of the election, Ali said.
“The plaintiff’s
argument [of electoral fraud] did not have any impact on the vote tallies
gained by the presidential candidate pairs,” Ali told the nine-panel bench.
The KPU declared Jokowi
and Ma’ruf Amin ticket as the winner in the April presidential race, securing
85 million votes (55.5 percent) against Prabowo and Sandiaga, who garnered 68
million votes (44.5 percent).
In the first hearing of
the case last week, the chief of Prabowo’s legal team, Bambang Widjojanto, said
the official election result had been rigged by an incorrect final voters list
(DPT) — identified as 17.5 million problematic voters — and an additional 5.7
million voters in the special voters list (DPK).
The plaintiffs claimed
that based on the C1 vote tally forms the Prabowo camp has gathered, Jokowi and
Ma’ruf should have only secured about 63 million votes. The Prabowo camp accused
the KPU of inflating the incumbent’s tally with about 22 million votes.
In the revised petition,
which was read out during the first hearing, the plaintiff attached a table
comparing the camp’s own tally data to the KPU’s vote count in each province and
concluded that Prabowo and Sandiaga should have garnered 52 percent of the
vote.
Ali said that the KPU
had settled the problematic DPT prior to the April 17 election and had even
carried out coordination at least seven times with members of the Prabowo ticket,
who had previously reported the problems in the DPT to the
commission.
Factual verifications
and sampling had been carried out in coordination with demographic and
statistic experts to ensure that all voters had been indeed eligible to take
part in the election, he said.
Regarding the accusation
that the KPU had manipulated the DPK, Ali said it was simply false because
Prabowo’s camp had not been able to “elaborate on the details of the locations
of polling stations” where the 5.7 million voters in the DPK had cast their
votes.
Believing that the
election was rigged, the Prabowo-Sandiaga camp demanded a revote in at least 12
provinces, including Central Java, East Java and Jakarta — key provinces
secured by the incumbent.
The camp also alleged
Jokowi misused the state bureaucracy and state-owned enterprises and involved
state apparatuses in the election, while accusing the incumbent of “vote
buying” by using state money to fund his administration’s programs and
influence citizens to vote for him.
I Wayan Sudirta, one of
the lawyers on Jokowi’s campaign team — which became the related party in the
case — called the allegations of the involvement of state apparatuses,
including police and intelligence officials, in rallying for the incumbent
“assumptive” and “tendentious” because they were baseless.
Elections Supervisory
Agency (Bawaslu) chairman Abhan said that his office had also never found or
received reports regarding the matter.
Luhut Pangaribuan, another of Jokowi’s lawyers, said that the Prabowo camp had failed to provide further explanations about how the government’s programs could influence voter preferences, adding that the accusations were “exaggerated”.
Luhut Pangaribuan, another of Jokowi’s lawyers, said that the Prabowo camp had failed to provide further explanations about how the government’s programs could influence voter preferences, adding that the accusations were “exaggerated”.
“The plaintiff also did
not explain the reason why, where and on which level [of polling stations] the
[Jokowi-Ma’ruf] vote tally was reduced in its own version of the count,” he
added.
Both the KPU and
Jokowi’s legal team also rejected the revised petition read out by Bambang
during Friday’s first hearing on the grounds that the latest version, which
included new arguments and new urls to news articles, was a new version of the
petition rather than a revision of the original document filed by the Prabowo
team on May 24.
Justice Suhartoyo,
however, said in the first hearing that whether the court would consider the
revised petition would be decided during the justices’ meeting and would only
be revealed publicly during the ruling announcement scheduled for June 28.
On Wednesday, the court
is to continue the hearing with witnesses and experts presented by the Prabowo
camp.
The Analysis of The
Quality of The News :
1.
Balance
Balance in journalism is considered one of the most important
characteristics of any news piece. Balance means a lack of bias, and is the
ethical imperative of a journalist to transmit the news in an impartial manner.
This means that a reporter should, whenever possible, demonstrate the opposing
viewpoints at play in a story dynamic; it is important to note that there are
often more than two sides to any story.
Let’s prove it! The question is “Is it balance or not?”. The
answer is yes, it is. Because The Jakarta Post has already interviewed Ali, Bambang,
Abhan, Luhut and Suhartoyo that they truly give some facts and of course they
are relatable.
Ø According to a statement
received by The Jakarta Post, They give several statements :
·
Ali said Prabowo’s legal
team — which largely cited news reports as the basis of its arguments in the
lawsuit — had failed to elaborate on how the KPU was involved in the alleged
election-rigging attempts and how far the allegations were correlated to the
vote tally secured by each presidential candidate, he said.
·
“The plaintiff’s argument
[of electoral fraud] did not have any impact on the vote tallies gained by the
presidential candidate pairs,” Ali told the nine-panel bench.
·
The chief of Prabowo’s
legal team, Bambang Widjojanto, said the official election result had been
rigged by an incorrect final voters list (DPT) — identified as 17.5 million
problematic voters — and an additional 5.7 million voters in the special voters
list (DPK).
·
Ali said that the KPU had
settled the problematic DPT prior to the April 17 election and had even carried
out coordination at least seven times with members of the Prabowo ticket, who
had previously reported the problems in the DPT to the commission.
·
Elections Supervisory
Agency (Bawaslu) chairman Abhan said that his office had also never found or
received reports regarding the matter.
·
Luhut Pangaribuan, another
of Jokowi’s lawyers, said that the Prabowo camp had failed to provide further
explanations about how the government’s programs could influence voter
preferences, adding that the accusations were “exaggerated”.
·
Justice Suhartoyo, however,
said in the first hearing that whether the court would consider the revised
petition would be decided during the justices’ meeting and would only be
revealed publicly during the ruling announcement scheduled for June 28.
Ø Moreover, On Wednesday, the court is to continue the hearing with
witnesses and experts presented by the Prabowo camp.
2.
Objective
Objectivity in journalism aims to help the audience make up their
own mind about a story, providing the facts alone and then letting audiences
interpret those on their own. To maintain objectivity in journalism, journalists should present the facts whether
or not they like or agree with those facts.
Let’s discuss it! The question is “is it objective or not?” The
answer is yes, it is. Why? Because there are a lot of facts that are given.
For example :
1.
Tuesday saw lawyers representing the two parties taking turns to
point out that Prabowo and running mate Sandiaga Uno — the plaintiffs in the case — had failed to
present strong arguments and evidence to back up their claim that there had
been “structured, systematic and massive fraud” to rig the election in Jokowi’s
favor.
2.
The plaintiffs claimed that based on the C1 vote tally forms the
Prabowo camp has gathered, Jokowi and Ma’ruf should have only secured about 63
million votes. The Prabowo camp accused the KPU of inflating the incumbent’s
tally with about 22 million votes.
3.
On Wednesday, the court is to continue the hearing with witnesses
and experts presented by the Prabowo camp.
3.
Current
Time is the essence of the news. Emphasis is on the time element
of news story, this is necessary because of the changes which may occur in the
transitory period. Things are always changing and the news consumers want the
most recent information on subjects of concerns or interest to them.
Let’s see! The question is “Is the news current? Or Is it new?”
The answer is definitely yes, it is.
Indonesia's poll body fights back
Marguerite Afra Sapiie
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta / Wed, June 19, 2019 /
08:29 am
4.
Conscise and clear
News must follow the news form developed over a period of many
years. It must be unite, concise, clear, and simple. It should be well-paced,
unified, and abuse all written so clearly that the meaning of the story is also
absolutely plain.
The question is “is it concise and clear or not?”. The answer is
yes, it is. Because it doesn’t have ambiguous meaning and it is organized well.
5.
Accurate
A media organisation will be judged on the accuracy and
reliability of its journalism, which must be well-sourced, supported by strong
evidence, examined and tested, clear and unambiguous. Verified facts must form
the basis of all news, not rumour and speculation.
The question is “is it accurate? Or is it a trusted news?”. The
answer is yes, it is. Because based on the facts that are given, not just
several opinions, and strong evidences, it proves that it is a well-sourced
news.
THE EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF NEWS
- Evaluating
News of Significance
a.
Influence on consumers’ lives
The events and information are of primary importance
to a large proportion of the people
that his medium reaches.
It is proven by :
“Regarding the accusation that the KPU had
manipulated the DPK, Ali said it was simply false because Prabowo’s camp had
not been able to “elaborate on the details of the locations of polling
stations” where the 5.7 million voters
in the DPK had cast their votes.”
b.
Proximity
The relevance of geography to news significance must be considered in evaluating
election news.
It is proven by :
“Little Avengers: Activists wearing costumes of
Avengers superheroes and Gatotkaca, a character from Javanese folklore, pose
for a photo with posters calling for peace near the Constitutional Court on Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat in Central Jakarta
on Tuesday to demonstrate against riots. The rally participants, who are
members of Koalisi Indonesia Rukun (Harmonious Indonesia Coalition), made the
decision to gather after the May 21-22 postelection riots.”
c.
Radius of an event’s influence
The distance
between the news audience and the news event influences news selection in many
ways.
It is proven by :
(No one)
d.
Proportion people
The relative significance of news may be determined
by the proportion of people in
community whose lives are affected by the news event.
It is proven by :
“The KPU declared Jokowi and Ma’ruf Amin ticket as
the winner in the April presidential race, securing 85 million votes (55.5 percent) against Prabowo and Sandiaga, who
garnered 68 million votes (44.5 percent).”
e.
Community’s size and composition
The size of community
and the degree of competition for
news attention also effect news selection.
It is proven by :
“The KPU declared Jokowi and Ma’ruf Amin ticket as the winner in the April
presidential race, securing 85 million votes (55.5 percent) against Prabowo and Sandiaga, who garnered 68
million votes (44.5 percent).”
- Evaluating
of Interest
a.
The purpose of news
The purpose of the news is to give some informations related to Indonesia's poll body fights back.
b.
Groupings of news
a)
Hard news
Up-to-the-minute news and event that require
immediate reporting.
Example: news about politic, economic, war, crime,
business.
b)
Soft news
News that is considered background information or
human interest.
Example: news about lifestyle, art, and
entertainment.
§ So, this news is included into Hard News because it
is pointed by Politics.
c.
Understanding response to human-interest stories
a)
Immediate Rewards : A news that gives the recipient an instant
impulse-as soon as he perceives the news. (laugh, or feels a jolt of sympathy,
or tingles with excitement).
Example: news of crime and corruption, accidents and
disasters, sports and recreation, social events.
b)
Delayed Rewards : A
news that does not affect the consumer instantly, its full impact comes at a
later time.
Example: news of public affairs, economic matters,
social problems, science, education, and health.
§ So, this news included into Delayed Rewards because
it is news of public affairs.
- News
Interest and Time Element
a.
Timeliness
A story is timely if it is appropriate to the
audience at the time when it is printed, whether the events it reports are
current or not.
b.
Seasonableness
Seasonable stories are those which could be used
appropriately at the same time of any year. They may be tied to a natural
season or to a date that has traditional customs.
- Originality
a.
Accurate
Is it accurate? Yes, it is.
b.
Original
Is it original? Yes, it is.
c.
True
Is it true? Yes, it is.
- The
Responsibility for News Decisions
a.
How important it is? It is very important to be read because it gives
some factual informations.
b.
Is it useful? Yes,
it is.
c.
Is it a factual news? Yes, it is.
The
Analysis of Investigative Reporting News :
1. Investigative reporting is one of the hardest jobs of a reporter.
It demands a lot of time and effort. At the same time it is exciting,
interesting and rewarding.
Indonesia's
poll body fights back
Marguerite Afra Sapiie
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
/ Wed, June 19, 2019 / 08:29 am
As we know that
June 19, 2019 was the date when the political riots happened. So, this news
takes time a lot to collect the data and information carefully which must be
relevant.
2. The story must speak about something that is interesting for the
readers, viewers or listeners; it must be about something that concerns them
and their everyday life.
In the first hearing of the case last week,
the chief of Prabowo’s legal team, Bambang Widjojanto, said the official
election result had been rigged by an incorrect final voters list (DPT) —
identified as 17.5 million problematic voters — and an additional 5.7 million
voters in the special voters list (DPK).
On the other hand, Both the KPU and Jokowi’s
legal team also rejected the revised petition read out by Bambang during
Friday’s first hearing on the grounds that the latest version, which included
new arguments and new urls to news articles, was a new version of the petition
rather than a revision of the original document filed by the Prabowo team on
May 24.
Because of the serious riots, it will give bad
impact for NKRI so that this news is very important to be reported.
3. Investigative reporting is nothing else but
exposing something that certain persons, companies or government agencies do
not want the public to know.
Justice Suhartoyo, however, said in the first hearing that
whether the court would consider the revised petition would be decided during
the justices’ meeting and would only be revealed publicly during the ruling
announcement scheduled for June 28.
On Wednesday, the court is to continue the hearing with
witnesses and experts presented by the Prabowo camp.
Although
the serious riots happened, the journalists are brave to report that fact that
the crime actually really happened without any hesitation.
Temmy Valentina Pahalani
2201415173
English Education
Journalism 107
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