World Journal of Engineering Research and Technology

Ludiro Madu*

ABSTRACT

Media conglomeration has been very prevalent in the post-1998 Indonesia which in turn influenced raised up the issue of media ownership and control in democratic era. This development brings about problems on the ways media power has influenced democratization in the country. While the democratic process has been in transitional phase, it lacks capacity of regulating and limiting conglomerate's ownership on media and has put democracy into risk. Media take almost full control in determining issues to be published or broadcasted publicly. This paper discusses the failure of democratic culture in regulating media ownership and control in Indonesia. It aims at elaborating the way conglomerates have conducted political appropriation of the on-going democracy which has put democracy into risk, i.e. tendency of media concentration in the hands of few conglomerates. Finally, this paper argues that the post-1998 democratic culture has not succeeded in regulating the concentration of media ownership in Indonesia.

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