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:: “Anak Tiri” yang Marjinal; Potret Radio Komunitas di Indonesia: Kasus Kalimantan Barat (“The Stepchild” that Marginalized; Picture of Community Radio in Indonesia: Cases in West Kalimantan)

Writer: Elias Ngiuk, Edi Petebang, Evy Flavia

Experience is the most valuable teacher. This is the firmness that wanted to be revealed in the book that tells about experience of Institut Dayakologi (ID) in facilitating some of the community's radio in West Kalimantan. As something that just emerged in the reform era, certainly the experience of facilitating the community in managing the community's radio is something that full of dynamics and challenges. The present of the community's radio as medium in developing peace and reconciliation. New breakthroughs in the future is needed in order to develop the community's radio. If not, fate of the community's radio will be like “the stepchild” that marginalized and difficult to develop in the middle of the community. In fact, this radio as “people’s tongue” that spread information among them without being occupied by various interests of political and economical. In fact, through the community's radio also the people could express themselves naturally and according to their own perspective. The instigators of social problems in the middle of the indigenous people, as well as the policy makers are very appropriate to read this book.

Size: 14 cm x 20.5 cm; 105 pages
First Edition, September 2006