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The Covid-19 pandemic has been going on for the past two years. During this time, there has been a lot of news about Covid-19, which has affected the attitudes of citizens including through social media. There has been a rise in journalism among citizens who write about the pros and cons of the government efforts to manage the recovery from the pandemic. There are still debates about whether citizen journalism can be used as a form of public participation. Public participation in the context of open government can demonstrate citizen involvement in the policy-making process of democratic countries. The response of governments to citizen journalists varies. Some countries have banned them, some have ignored them, and some have documented their opinions. What about Indonesia? To what extent do the central and local governments accommodate and respond to their citizens who write about their complaints and experiences? This paper employed qualitative descriptive methods using secondary data and analyzed the culture and behavior of citizens and governments within the democratic context. There have been changes in opinions and a polarization in aims to spread accurate news. As a result, the correct information about Covid-19 could be obtained not only from official government information, but also from the citizen journalists who were given space by the central and regional governments in Indonesia. Local governments have used citizen journalism to evaluate several policies during the pandemic times. The central government accommodates citizen journalism, but the government policies are issued using a top-down approach. Trying to prevent citizen journalism can lead to backlash from citizens. This article aimed to provide an analysis from the public administration perspective about the importance of the involvement of citizen participation during the pandemic times, especially when the media and experts are forced to be silent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although radio has traditionally been recognized as a medium dependent on listener engagement, social media platforms such as Twitter have introduced new forms of interactivity due to their real-time and networked characteristics, facilitating the emergence of novel engagement types. Employing a case study approach, this research delves into the various forms of engagement on @PRFMnews, the official Twitter handle of PRFM Radio in Indonesia. Data was collected through observation of posts and interactions on the @PRFMnews account and through comprehensive interviews with the chief editor and two online editors of the station. Document studies were also conducted throughout October 2021 to gather research data. The study yielded several findings. Firstly, Twitter has been identified not only as a source of news but also as a platform that augments listener engagement in citizen journalism. Secondly, user-to-user interactivity was evident in the manner in which users tweeted and responded to posts from both their peers and account administrators. Thirdly, user-to-system interactivity was characterized by how individuals engaged with the social networking platform itself, particularly in actions like clicking URLs and viewing media containing hyperlinks. Lastly, user-to-document interactivity was observed in the way users retweeted and liked posts on the @PRFMnews account. These findings demonstrate that the dynamics between radio stations and their listeners have evolved in conjunction with the popularity of Twitter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses objectives of the local news radio station PFRM in Indonesia including creating citizen journalism, expanding its social networks, and managing operational costs. Particular focus is given to the process of information supply by PFRM including gathering information through social media, use of participatory journalism, and defining the role of media in a civil society.

This article draws attention to the emergent modes of urban sociality and circumscribed mobility that define the lives of traffic-stricken residents in the megacity of Jakarta, Indonesia. I argue that Jakarta traffic has exceeded the scale and discourse of a technopolitical problem of failed infrastructure; rather, the systemic and rhizomic nature of traffic provides the temporal infrastructure that governs the flow of living and leisure, and the patterning of individual desires and struggles in urban Indonesia. I use the term 'absolute traffic' to convey the limit horizon of gridlock as a set of exhausting physical and psychic states that urban residents survive daily. Despite such overwhelming challenges to mobility, particularly for the city's underprivileged populations, I argue for an agentive perspective of absolute traffic in which forms of play, negotiation and disruption form important moments for the public display of infrastructural aptitude. Strategies for surviving and engaging with absolute traffic emerge in ephemeral sites of finely attuned traffic subjectivity --in the sociality of strangers, the political demonstrations of activists, the growing citizen journalism for traffic reports on radio shows and social media sites, and finally, in the artistic sensibility of artists captivated by the vernacular forms of urban chaos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Social media has become one of the fastest-growing communication media in Indonesia. Its use for various purposes has been found to be very useful. Objectives: To know the usefulness of my social media contents in delivering mental health information. Methods: We gather information from the public using surveymonkeycom started on May 1st, 2017 until September 30th, 2017. We asked them to fill the survey form about their activity in social media and their opinion about my mental health awareness information. Results: 395 respondents conducted the survey. 94.9% (respondents) checked their social media accounts every day. Half of respondentsare18-29 years old range. 47.09% of respondents using social media every day to access health contents on the internet. Most of the respondents (47.8%) accessed my Facebook (5K friends and 12,887 followers) and 47.55% accessed my Twitter (35K followers). Our survey used self-assessment that used point (mentioned as a star from range 1 to 10, 1: least benefit, 10: very strong benefit). My Facebook account seemed to be the most popular social media that attracted people to get information about mental health, followed by my blog in Kompasiana Citizen Journalism and my Youtube channel (34K subscribers). Respondents founded my contents in social media to be useful with the points of 8.3 and add some knowledge to them with 8.5 points. Conclusions: Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube channel were still to be themost socialmedia that respondents thought to be informative to spread the awareness of psychosomatic issues and mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]