AMP - Presidential candidate number 02, Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo, again issued a controversial statement. Again, the subject he was in charge of was journalists and the mass media.
Speaking at the International Disability Day commemoration in Jakarta, Wednesday, December 5, Prabowo accused the mass media of trying to manipulate democracy. One of them is related to news about the number of participants in Reunion 212.
"The media are amazing with big names and say they are objective, even though they manipulate democracy. We talk right, right, wrong, yes, wrong, they want to say that 11 million is only 15 thousand. Some even say more than 1,000, "Prabowo said.
After the event, the former Kopassus Danjen did not answer the substance of the reporter's questions. He repeated what was said on the pulpit.
"Your editor says there are no people there, only a few tens of thousands, that, right, is not objective, you can't," Prabowo said.
Imitating Trump's Style in America
Media researcher from Remotivi, Muhammad Heychael, considers what Prabowo Subianto has done to journalists and the media as well as US President Donald Trump.
"It's like there is an effort to take Trump's method from the slogan Make Indonesia Great Again and also make an attitude of distrust to the media. Of course supporters will follow," Heychael told Tirto reporters on Thursday (12/06/2018) afternoon.
Prabowo is right to criticize the media, Heychael said, but it must be more specific: where the news is wrong until where the bias is.
"It's good for Prabowo to show it all, instead of building a climate of multimedia. It's precisely a danger. This is not good political education and media literacy."
Nevertheless, Heychael said that the people also had to know that there were media whose owners 'docked' to Jokowi's camp. One example is Surya Paloh. He is the owner of Metro TV and Chair of the Nasdem Party, the incumbent coalition party. That makes Prabowo's sentiment to the media negative.
"But that does not mean that all of Prabowo's protests have become legitimate. Because the 11 million people in 212 were too excessive, their claims should be questioned," he said.
(We once wrote about the total Reunion number 212. Our calculations, indeed the numbers are bombastic and unreasonable. Read the writing here).
Media researcher and observer Andreas Harsono also considered similar. Prabowo's attitude and statement towards journalists and the mass media is considered very dangerous because it is prone to cause misunderstandings and a climate of hatred towards the media.
"The worst thing happened later like Trump and CNN in America. Even Trump supporters had thrown bombs at the CNN office. Don't let Indonesia happen like that," continued Andreas to Tirto reporter.
According to Andreas, public figures of the same class as Prabowo Subianto were not worthy of acting like that, especially in front of the community.
"Unless it is deliberately creating controversy. Sucking attention until everyone is centered on him. This is the strategy of Roger Stone, media strategist Donald Trump first," he said.
Speaking at the International Disability Day commemoration in Jakarta, Wednesday, December 5, Prabowo accused the mass media of trying to manipulate democracy. One of them is related to news about the number of participants in Reunion 212.
"The media are amazing with big names and say they are objective, even though they manipulate democracy. We talk right, right, wrong, yes, wrong, they want to say that 11 million is only 15 thousand. Some even say more than 1,000, "Prabowo said.
After the event, the former Kopassus Danjen did not answer the substance of the reporter's questions. He repeated what was said on the pulpit.
"Your editor says there are no people there, only a few tens of thousands, that, right, is not objective, you can't," Prabowo said.
Imitating Trump's Style in America
Media researcher from Remotivi, Muhammad Heychael, considers what Prabowo Subianto has done to journalists and the media as well as US President Donald Trump.
"It's like there is an effort to take Trump's method from the slogan Make Indonesia Great Again and also make an attitude of distrust to the media. Of course supporters will follow," Heychael told Tirto reporters on Thursday (12/06/2018) afternoon.
Prabowo is right to criticize the media, Heychael said, but it must be more specific: where the news is wrong until where the bias is.
"It's good for Prabowo to show it all, instead of building a climate of multimedia. It's precisely a danger. This is not good political education and media literacy."
Nevertheless, Heychael said that the people also had to know that there were media whose owners 'docked' to Jokowi's camp. One example is Surya Paloh. He is the owner of Metro TV and Chair of the Nasdem Party, the incumbent coalition party. That makes Prabowo's sentiment to the media negative.
"But that does not mean that all of Prabowo's protests have become legitimate. Because the 11 million people in 212 were too excessive, their claims should be questioned," he said.
(We once wrote about the total Reunion number 212. Our calculations, indeed the numbers are bombastic and unreasonable. Read the writing here).
Media researcher and observer Andreas Harsono also considered similar. Prabowo's attitude and statement towards journalists and the mass media is considered very dangerous because it is prone to cause misunderstandings and a climate of hatred towards the media.
"The worst thing happened later like Trump and CNN in America. Even Trump supporters had thrown bombs at the CNN office. Don't let Indonesia happen like that," continued Andreas to Tirto reporter.
According to Andreas, public figures of the same class as Prabowo Subianto were not worthy of acting like that, especially in front of the community.
"Unless it is deliberately creating controversy. Sucking attention until everyone is centered on him. This is the strategy of Roger Stone, media strategist Donald Trump first," he said.
Why is Prabowo like that?
One BPN spokesman Arief Poyuono revealed the reason why Prabowo often showed resistance to reporters and the media. The reason is exactly what Heychael stated.
"One of them is because Metro TV is making unbalanced news, more so to Jokowi. We know the owner of Metro TV is in Jokowi's camp now (Surya Paloh). It makes the media a partisan, although there are many other media that are not partisan," Arief said when contacted by a Tirto reporter on Wednesday afternoon.
"This is a media conglomerate," he stressed.
Therefore, he claimed that the one criticized by Prabowo was the media owner who used the public frequency for politics, not the reporters who were actually workers.
"If you want to go to democracy, the owners of political media such as Surya Paloh and Hary Tanoesoedibjo should be aware if they are the ones who delegitimize democracy itself," he said.
"We are not anti-journalist friends in the field, we criticize media owners. Donald Trump was also beaten by a political buzzer, and also a lot of media that Trump does not want to become President of America. If it is not balanced and wrong, we say honestly protesting "That is also done by Trump," he said.
One BPN spokesman Arief Poyuono revealed the reason why Prabowo often showed resistance to reporters and the media. The reason is exactly what Heychael stated.
"One of them is because Metro TV is making unbalanced news, more so to Jokowi. We know the owner of Metro TV is in Jokowi's camp now (Surya Paloh). It makes the media a partisan, although there are many other media that are not partisan," Arief said when contacted by a Tirto reporter on Wednesday afternoon.
"This is a media conglomerate," he stressed.
Therefore, he claimed that the one criticized by Prabowo was the media owner who used the public frequency for politics, not the reporters who were actually workers.
"If you want to go to democracy, the owners of political media such as Surya Paloh and Hary Tanoesoedibjo should be aware if they are the ones who delegitimize democracy itself," he said.
"We are not anti-journalist friends in the field, we criticize media owners. Donald Trump was also beaten by a political buzzer, and also a lot of media that Trump does not want to become President of America. If it is not balanced and wrong, we say honestly protesting "That is also done by Trump," he said.
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