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Journalism and Conflict in Indonesia: From Reporting Violence to Promoting Peace

Abingdon, Oxon et al.: Routledge (2013), xiii, 255 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 229-252, index

Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series, 53

ISBN 9781138815834 (pbk); 9780203095393 (online)

"This book examines, through the case study of Indonesia over recent decades, how the reporting of violence can drive the escalation of violence, and how journalists can alter their reporting practices in order to have the opposite effect and promote peace." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction, 1
2 Communication and Culture, 12
3 Media Freedom and Journalistic Culture in Post-New Order Indonesia, 36
4 Violence, Culture and National Disintegration in Indonesia, 78
5 Culture Wars in Indonesia: Maluku, 118
6 Framing Religious Conflict: Primordialism Writ Large, 157
7 War and Peace Journalism, 175