I read an interesting headline today in India best-selling newspaper The Times of India. The title’s no less catchy: “Blogs Rage over Denial of Justice.” It’s the number two top headline today in the media. It reports the anger and anguish of Indian bloggers over some recently concluded verdict results on rape and murder issues. It also quotes some statements made by some Indian bloggers on the issues. When a 1.2 million-readership newspaper records what bloggers are saying, the readers listen and salute them.
What I’d like to say is the role of media in India in popularizing the blogs as a true voices of people conscience has been tremendeously good. What about Indonesia media?
I hate to say that media in Indonesia still regard a blog as tools for a kid playing field , or as another kind of website technology in its more advanced and easy-to-use form. Duncan Graham helps enlightening Indonesian media when he wrote a good piece about blog in the Jakarta Post several months back. Yet, his piece got ‘honoured’ in a Feature column, no body will read it, until you have a lot of spare-time.
Considering the fast growth of Indonesia blogs, both in numbers and quality, isn’t it the time for mainstream media to take the blogger voices into account?
Blog, blogging and blogger should not only be considered, and therefore put under, the technology or features category of any media column. Its contents are the people voices; the voice of conscience and therefore should have a better place in the mainstream media. Both in its print edition and/or online ones.[]