UNESCO is the lead UN Agency for promoting freedom of expression and safety of journalists as part of its mandate to “promote the free flow of ideas by word and image”.
Masduki
Associate Professor at Department of Communication, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA
Media system post-authoritarian media journalism media activism press freedom media sustainability
I am a member of the Worlds of Journalism Study, managing the project for the Indonesian chapter (since 2014). Besides this, I organized several academic research and advocacies regarding media diversity and media ownership in post-authoritarian Indonesia, the safety of women journalists, and its impact on media and journalistic freedom in Indonesia during the last decade. Before entering the academic field, I was a radio journalist and currently working for the Alliance of Independent Journalists (a prominent journalist association in Indonesia) as a media sustainability consultant.
Definition of journalists' safety
The journalist's healthy environment in general: physical, economic, and personal political expression. Also, the journalists' safety from all kinds of harassment in their working place and field activities (physical, psychological, digital, etc.)Future plans for research on journalists' safety
Safety of women journalists; the sustainability of quality journalism in the Indonesian digital age; Digital media ownership in Indonesia and Southeast Asia region and its political affiliations as well as its implication to the works of journalist's safety.- Research focuses:
- Physical, Psychological, Digital, Financial, Legal
- Methods used in research:
- Surveys, Focus groups, Interviews, Qualitative content analysis, Ethnography
- Countries of research focus:
- Indonesia
