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Identity, Media and the Margins: Radio in Pekanbaru, Riau (Indonesia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2005

Suryadi
Suryadi
Affiliation:
The Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He may be contacted at: [email protected]
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Abstract

Since the fall of Suharto's New Order government the number and variety of media available have grown at a remarkable rate in Indonesia. In the process these new media, particularly radio, have created new forums for expressing local identity. This article examines how various radio stations, and specific programmes, in Pekanbaru, Riau have provided a new conduit for marginalised ethnic, linguistic and social groups – particularly Riau Malays – to address issues of their identity in an increasingly globalised, and decentralised, Indonesia.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 131 - 151
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© 2005 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this article was presented at the VA/AVMI (Leiden University) symposium on Media Cultures in Indonesia, 2–7 April 2001, and the international workshop on Globalising Media and Local Society in Indonesia conducted by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University, 13–14 September 2002. Research was conducted through the Verbal Art in the Audio-Visual Media of Indonesia (VA/AVMI) Research Programme at the Centre for Non-Western Studies at Leiden University under the supervision of Professor Dr Bernard Arps. I would like to thank the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for financial support which enabled me to conduct field research in Riau. In addition, I would like to sincerely thank Timothy P. Barnard, Jabatin Bangun, Krishna Sen, Edwin Jurriëns, Clara Brakel, Makoto Koike, H. M. J. Maier and two anonymous JSEAS reviewers in particular for their helpful comments. Any mistakes, of course, are mine alone.