The improvement of security in politics and new media calls for fast action. Recent cases indicate that political position and rights to communication using new media cannot be guaranteed due to the problem of security. The reasons rest on the way the people get into politics and the aims they use new media. The following article explores how ethics may solve the problem of security, starting from ethics in democracy, politics, and new media, the causes of ethics violations, and attitudes for coping with security problems.
New media is the future of communication. This statement underlines the potential contribution of new media, as the development of communication technology promises. Some who worry about the negative impacts of new media, lead to reactive instead of proactive and minimize the usage. Others, who are convinced by the potential power of new media in enhancing democracy keen to make the best use of it. This article highlights this controversy.
The development of communication rests on the ability to meet the requirements of the government, industry, public and academic motives. Nonetheless, as it also happens in Indonesia, there are five factors that tend to reduce the development. The presence of new media creates another problem in this case. This article presents some endeavors focusing on research to anticipate the development.
This article examines the relationship between the government and the media, arguing that both the government and the media workers can create a compact cooperation against terrorism. This can be used for combating the media strategy applied by the terrorist groups which tend to enjoy conflict with violence to spread their propaganda. Matrixing the changing faces of terrorism and the media's role in a conflict helps to facitilitate the government in handling terrorism.
(Press Between Two Neighbouring Countries) Cultural differences between the Indonesian and Australian media sometimes create complaints and tensions. While the Australian media are generally regarded as being aggressive, fond of conflict, eager to get to the core of issues quickly and playing "supervisory" role, the Indonesian media are portrayed as being government's microphone and leaving the fact and the truth. The problem to be discussed centre on how the various views of the neighbouring countries' press emerge. By brushing aside the reasons to rationalise and the existed opinions, this paper shows that both the Indonesian and Australian press have implemented a good professional standard of journalism.
Democratic governance requires the existence of good governance, human rights and democracy. Obtaining the standards of democratic governance is needed by Indonesia to be internationally accepted. Nonetheless, Indonesia's record on human rights leads to the understanding that this country has to pay highly attention on human rights, Five elements can be contested to evaluate the position of Indonesia in achieving the democratic governance.
The popularity of social media attracts many people to participate in various activities every day. Social media usually comes in the form of audio, graphics, video text and animations that provide convenience to its users to disseminate and access information quickly amd easily. Without realizing it, parents often show off their children's personal data in their parents' and children's accounts, usually for personal or business purposes. The purpose of this study is to examine more about the efforts made by parents to protect children's data privacy on Instagram social media accounts. This study uses the meta-analysis method of the literature study on previous studies. In this study, we want to see how the role of digital literacy in protecting children's personal data is and how to conceptualize children's self-protection digital literacy on social media. The findings of this study with the concept, threats, recommendations regarding the importance of digital literacy for personal data protection and conceptual integration can be used as a reference in further research. The protection of children's personal data is important to thwart the threat of cyber crime, violence and online extortion. It can also be one of the guarantees for children's good growth and development because the data will not be misused by other parties for financial gain or to threaten children.
