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Raising climate change, AI issues in journalism at The Jakarta Post’s 40th anniversary
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he third Media Matters forum featured distinguished speakers taking part in two discussions on Thursday as part of The Jakarta Post's 40th anniversary celebrations.
The first discussion, Media's Role in Climate Change Advocacy, featured speakers Leonard Simanjuntak, country director for Indonesia at Greenpeace, Andi Muhammad Ibnu Aqil, environmental reporter of The Jakarta Post, Ridzki Sigit, general manager of Mongabay.com, Gita Syahrani, head of secretariat of Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari and Andhyta F. Utami, environmental economist and founder of Think Policy.
According to Leo, the media should address the key existential problems that the world is facing and realize that one way of doing this is to address language, taking note of the Guardian’s decision to adopt the phrase “climate crisis” over “climate change”.
“The [Indonesian] media could do this better, because one of the key obstacles is that they see the climate crisis has not yet become a big agenda,” he said, adding that the media should adapt creatively to highlight its expertise, for example on social media like TikTok, which currently has a huge number of users.
In response, Ridzki said the challenges of the media was the gap between audiences and journalists.
“It is not easy to describe and find the angle to be raised and shared to the audience.” Ridzki said, yet all agreed that a contextualized approach, away from the sometimes-inaccessible science, was the best way to reach audiences.
The second session addressed the Impact of AI on Journalism, inviting noteworthy speakers such as Yura Syahrul, chief editor of Katadata, Wan Ulfa Nur Zuhra, founder of Indonesian Data Journalism Network and Ika Krismantari, chief editor of The Conversation Indonesia, who were accompanied by Jet Damazo-Santos, special projects lead of The Jakarta Post as moderator.
The panelists agreed that AI was a new breakthrough that can help creativity. However, it still has its limitations in providing accurate information, especially for the media and reporters to provide information to the audience.
Ika said she was very optimistic in seeing the development of AI, although acknowledged that it was difficult to see the future where every news organization sees AI.
“But in other ways, it also creates an opportunity to challenge the media to think more creatively on how they create news.”
A representative of United Nations cultural organization UNESCO, Ali, who attended the event and the panel sessions the day before, told the Post that the events were needed “because they bring a lot of different figures from media outlets together with a collaborative spirit.”
Mark F. Winkel, principal consultant of Prisma Public Relations said the forum was very interesting, and he was glad to see the Post having a big impact.
“It is all the good issues to bring up and to talk about after 40 years, and I am happy to take part in it. By celebrating this Media Matters, The Jakarta Post shows that it could be relevant as media providing accurate information,” he added.
The event will continue through to Aug. 19 if you would like to attend any of the events, please RSVP at: https://lnkd.in/gtFJyUmA
Visit the website to find out more about the speakers and the upcoming events: https://lnkd.in/gke2A3mw
