[New-imc] Jakarta IMC --Is it complete?
Margiyono . jakarta_raya at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 6 02:57:09 2002

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Membership Criteria:
A. PRINCIPLES OF UNITY
We all agree with membership criteria and the declarations.

B. COMMITTED MEMBERSHIP
IMC-Jakarta now have some people who involve in, they are: Margiyono
(jakarta_raya at hotmail.com), is a freelance journalist write for Pantau
(monthly media and journalism study), Latitudes, etc. and also works as
graphic designer, J.P Indra (redslabel at yahoo.com)works as scriptwriters
for SC TV), Muchlish (brigademerah at hotmail.com), freelancer for Tempo
magazine data and analysis Center), Coen Husein Pontoh
(coen_h_pontoh at hotmail.com) works for Pantau, media and journalism study),
Mugiyanto (mugiyanto at eudoramail.com) formerly worked as assistant
correspondent for Dutch NOS TV. Many people form Walhi, Sawit Watch and
other also make contribution for Jakarta Indymedia.

C. OPEN MEETINGS
Jakarta IMC organizes regular meeting every Monday afternoon. We used
Margiyono's place as temporary "center' at Jl. H. Saibun No.54 Jatipadang
Pasar Minggu Jakarta, phone (6221) 788 35 635

D. MISSION STATEMENT
According to Jakarta IMC mission, the newswire is engineered to strengthen 
individuals to be really independent journalists by providing a direct, 
unmoderated forum for publishing, including text articles, audio and video 
recordings, and photographs, to the public via the internet. Jakarta IMC, 
particularly open for publishing :

Investigative report or hard news;
Eyewitness report of significant progressive demonstrations or other 
activities;
Coverage Jakarta and other part of Indonesia regional issues;
Media criticism and analysis;
Academic research and analysis;
Opinions, mostly of voiceless people;
Media produced from within underrepresented groups;
Local stories with national or global significance;
Stories on people or projects working towards social and economic justice.


Newswire interface will give opportunity for journalists to make a choice of 
classifying their work as news or as opinion. In the future, they can 
classify their article depending on the issues like economy, politic, woman, 
labor, environment.

E. EDITORIAL POLICY

The Editorial Collective --The editorial collective is a group of volunteers 
who job is overseeing the content of the Jakarta IMC website. Our 
responsibility for the stewardship of the newswire, and of the website in 
general, is expressed in these four guiding principles, which for the basis 
of Jakarta IMC editorial policy:

-To provide open-publishing newswire in accordance with IMC policies and 
philosophy.
-To maintain the newswire and website as a public space, and dedicated 
especially for voiceless people.
-To aware that freedom of speak may be rise a disastrous media, but without 
freedom of speak is disaster.
-To present the website as a useful media resource.

Postings to the Jakarta IMC newswire are unmoderated. Members of the 
editorial collective monitor the newswire, give attention to important, 
informative posting to add to the front page's center-column feature 
section.

However, the editorial collective may reclassify postings as news or 
opinion, or hide them. Mostly, the posting will be hidden because they are 
empty or duplicate posts, or because they consist of advertising or other 
inappropriate content. People can monitor decisions made by the editorial 
collective by viewing the hidden article page.

Newswire Publishing -The Jakarta Independent Media Center is an open 
collective media production and distribution as tools for promoting social 
and economic justice. Trough our activities, Jakarta IMC people seek to the 
voiceless people that have small access to media  and  to clarify and 
analyze local and global issues that impact environment, people and 
individuals. We are dedicated to generating alternatives to the corporate 
media and to identifying and creating positive models for a sustainable and 
equitable society.

F OPEN PUBLISHING
Jakarta IMC uses Open Publishing on its web site,
"http://jakarta.indymedia.org.au" (soon to be
"http://jakarta.indymedia.org")

G. DECISIONMAKING POLICY
Jakarta IMC uses consensus-based decision-making processes. Decision-making 
processes usually making during meeting every Sunday afternoon, or by phone. 
Sometimes by mailing list, but internet access is expensive for us, so 
mailing-list discussion is not the only media for decision making-processes.

H. GLOBAL REPRESENTATIVE
The current representative of the Jakarta IMC is "Margiyono"


I. . NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS
IMC Jakarta will contribute as possible to network-wide communication,
the subscriber-readable-archives "private" list imc-jakarta is here for
anyone to subscribe to -
general info:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-jakarta
archive:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/private/imc-jakarta
and in case a backup is needed, the regional mailing list may be
used:
http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-australasia

J. AFFILIATIONS
About supporting organization, none of them are political party, SMS, PDS 
and other are student and community organizations.

K. COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE
The Jakarta IMC will not engage in commercial enterprises that inure to the 
benefit of any of its members.

L. IMC LOGO
IMC logo is on main page: http://jakarta.indymedia.org.au (soon to be
jakarta.indymedia.org)

M. LOCAL CITIES LIST
Cities list is on main page: http://jakarta.indymedia.org.au (soon to be 
jakarta.indymedia.org)

Introduction:
Jakarta Indymedia started at October 2001. We publish Indonesian story and 
translate stories from other local IMC. Our site is
www.jakarta.indymedia.org.au. (soon to be jakarta.indymedia.org).  Why we 
want to be an IMC: We want support people to organize protest against 
military oppression and neoliberal globalization with media which is 
independent from state control and capital domination. We have organize 
people in Jakarta to support Jakarta Indymedia.

There has been much discussion about the Jakarta IMC lately on the new-imc 
mailing list, with visitors from Australian IMCs, especially Sam from 
Melbourne, urging acceptance of the Jakarta IMC into the network.  They have 
already been welcomed by the Australasian Region, and have been operating at 
their current address,http://jakarta.indymedia.org.au since October.



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