A few weeks ago, Joko Widodo visited Suku Anak Dalam
to make sure about the surveillance of smoke disaster in Sumatra was still in
progress. Cek Endra as Chief of Jambi said that Jokowi is actually the first
president who ever visited Suku Anak Dalam. Suku Anak Dalam, who also known as
Orang Rimba Jambi feel so enthusiastic when they are given a chance to make a
conversation with President of Indonesia.
Joko Widodo said that he would give more concern about
isolated ethnic group, including Suku Anak Dalam. Thus, he visited Suku Anak
Dalam to help them complete their primary needs of life. In that moment, Suku
Anak Dalam hope that Jokowi build them an electricity network to enlighten
their life in a forest. Joko Widodo then call for his minister to listening
about the desire of Suku
Anak Dalam. Jokowi promise that he and government will give them a proper life
including home and many services.
It is not a secret that many of people give many
perspectives about what Joko widodo did to Suku Anak Dalam. Many give a
positive respond, but the rest give critics and being sarcasm to all of
Jokowi’s programs. This condition is advocated by media who have an authority
to gain public opinion about news.
Some of media shared that many people really
appreciated what Jokowi did, because Suku Anak Dalam seems so isolated, so that
government should give more concern about the existence of them. But in the
other hand, there are people who contra with Jokowi. They said that this
visiting program is just an instrument to gain a positive personal branding of Jokowi. They also said that this
visiting program does not comes up naturally but already planned to make sure
that Jokowi’s image and popularity is still on top.
This condition, then emerge a question
whether the perspective showed by media is really social perspective, or just
the result of politics needs from internal media. It is not easy to us to
define whether is real and whether is not because media blend and mix between
the fact and the opinion. But we can learn it in variety of ways. One of the
way is analyse the barriers that we have when we read a news from media.
The barriers that Indonesian people
have is that we accepted a news only from one source and we resist to look for
another source. This will make an oversimplified opinion who will lead us to
the extreme side. Another source
is needed to compare and check whether this source is credible or not. We can
see the credibility of news by looking for the background of the institution of
media, who is the founding father, who are the journalist, who are the editor,
how they frame the news within their ideology, so on and so forth.
By considering the factors above, we
can decide our behaviour in
comment or respond to the news that comes to us. It is quite important because
when we put our perspective and opinion
to the extreme side, it will probably emerge a conflict. All we have to do is
keep our perspective not to
extreme side. Beside, we better try
to find out the value of the news rather than force our opinion to others.