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City tightly selecting, editing meeting videos before uploading
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Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (third right) submits his speech text to City Council Speaker Prasetio Edi Marsudi (second left) after a plenary meeting on Nov. 15. (kompas.com/Nursita Sari )
T
he public is able to once again access videos of Jakarta executive meetings on YouTube for significantly shorter durations of four to 13 minutes per video as a result of tight selection and editing.
Video recordings of executive meetings were initially made public during the tenure of then Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama before he was jailed in May for blasphemy. The move was regulated under a 2016 Jakarta gubernatorial regulation. However, the current administration decided to stop making meeting proceedings public because of mockery, said Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno last week, which drew harsh criticism.
Jakarta Communications, Information and Statistics Agency head Dian Ekowati said the administration would review the content of each video before uploading it to YouTube in an attempt to prevent people from having the wrong perception of the administration’s policy plans.
The administration decided to resume uploading the videos on Thursday
However, the administration will not, for instance, upload videos of discussions on planned policies as it could result in misperception among the public, Dian said.
“We will review the footage first to see what can be delivered to the public,” Dian said on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
Dian said she hoped the administration would revise Jakarta Governor Regulation No. 159/2016 on uploading videos of leadership meetings.
The regulation stipulates that meeting recordings should be uploaded no later than three days after a meeting.
“We hope the regulation can be reviewed because three days are not enough for us to review the videos,” Dian said. (cal)
