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What drives Indonesia's green reporting?

What is the state of environmental journalism in the country?  

Warief Djajanto Basorie (The Jakarta Post)
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Fri, February 9, 2018 Published on Feb. 9, 2018 Published on 2018-02-09T10:18:05+07:00

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What drives Indonesia's green reporting? Forest and peatland fires are ranked as the most economically damaging disaster, accounting for 37 percent of Indonesia’s total economic damages from disasters between 1995 to 2016. (Shutterstock/File)

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adang, the capital of West Sumatra, plays host to the annual Press Day on Feb. 9. The provincial government held a reporting competition to emphasize the importance of covering the environment.

What is the state of environmental journalism in the country? 

Anna Agustina, a lecturer and deputy dean at the privately managed Pancasila University’s school of communication, tackled the question through a PhD thesis at the University of Science of Malaysia (USM). The recently released study was titled Perceptions and Roles of Indonesian Journalists in Covering Environmental Problems in Indonesia.

For 20 months starting in July 2014, Agustina collected data in eight provinces from 30 journalists in Aceh, Jakarta, Ketapang and Pontianak in West Kalimantan, Makassar in South Sulawesi, Semarang in Central Java, Surabaya in East Java and Yogyakarta.

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