Asia Week: Contemporary Expressions of Minority Groups in Indonesian Mass Media

Asia Week: Contemporary Expressions of Minority Groups in Indonesian Mass Media

When: 6:00 - 7:30pm Tuesday 21 October

Where: Yasuko Hiraoka Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

This public discussion focuses on the contemporary expressions of
minority groups, especially the Chinese Indonesians, in mass media.
This event is part of the Asia Week organized by the University of
Melbourne's Asia Institute in promotion of studies of Asian languages
and societies in the University of Melbourne particularly and in
Australia generally. The discussion begins with verbal presentations by:

Tintin Wulia (Artist and Researcher, RMIT)

The Name Game – or the years of living with no one to blame

Born and bred in a Chinese-Balinese family that survived 1965, the
discrepancies between the personal and the political have been
central to Tintin Wulia's practice as an artist. Recounting the past
ten years of her artistic research, in this lecture-performance she
will illustrate how she found the experiences which accompanied the
regime change of 1998 as complementary to the traumatic events and
mass killings of alleged communists in 1965. She will also show how
reflecting on 1965 can help re-contextualise the newly revived
'Chinese-Indonesian' identity within 'Indonesian' identity, by
looking at 1965 as a common ground shared by many 'Chinese' and 'non-
Chinese' Indonesians.

Tintin's work has been awarded, screened, exhibited, and collected
internationally, including in the International Film Festival
Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, New York Underground
Film Festival, SBS TV Australia, Istanbul Biennial, Yokohama
Triennial, Guangzhou Triennial, Jakarta Biennial, Van Abbemuseum,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt and London's Institute of Contemporary
Arts. Now based in Melbourne, Australia, Tintin Wulia's artistic
research is inspired by the geopolitical boundary and effects of its
renegotiations in the global and local, political and personal context.


Stanley Yosep Prasetyo (Commissioner of the National Commission of
Human Rights)

Is There Media for People of Chinese Descent in Indonesia?

(Address delivered in Indonesian – English translation available).

This discussion attempts to answer questions concerning media for
people of Chinese descent in Indonesia over the last decade of reform
or reformasi. What are the types of media that deal with the
segmentation of the Chinese Indonesians? Is the media for this ethnic
group of a high quality, and is it useful for political education of
this group? Or is it only meant to serve as an advertising tool in
the business world?

Stanley Prasetyo was born and raised in Malang, East Java. He studied
electrical engineering at Satya Wacana Christian University in
Salatiga, and Development Studies at Brawijaya University in Malang.
He has for years been actively involved in advocacy of human rights
especially the rights of minority groups in Indonesia. Amongst his
many important roles and activities in the field throughout the
years, from 2008 to 2013 he holds the responsibility of chair to the
strategic planning briefing committee for the national commision of
human rights. He is currently the national commissioner of human
rights, directly responsible for the sub-commission of education and
public awareness. He has published many written pieces including
'Media and May 1998 Riots' (2005), 'Racial Politics and Media
Publishing' (2003), 'Racial Politics and Efforts to Combat
It' (2002), and was editor of the Memoire of Oei Tjoe Tat (1995).

http://www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/events/asiaweek_minority_groups_expressions.html