Golden Indonesia 2045: Neoliberal Development Policies and Environmental Journalism
Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has published the article ‘Golden Indonesia 2045: Neoliberal Development Policies and Environmental Journalism’ in Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs.
By 2045, the government wants Indonesia to be a developed country, with sustainable economic development and energy transition at the top of the agenda on the road to ‘Golden Indonesia’. Despite the supposedly ‘green’ agenda, the forceful push for economic development is causing significant environmental destruction.
In this paper Birgit Bräuchler investigates the entanglements of Golden Indonesia politics, environmental journalism and activism, and social media through ethnographic research.
Using connective affordance as a conceptual frame and drawing on her long-term engagement with environmental activism in Indonesia, Birgit Bräuchler analyzes how environmental journalists and activists challenge government narratives and policies, through social media, online and offline engagement, and multimodal action. The paper examines what users do with social media, but focuses primarily on the human value and connectivity that activists produce in their digital media engagement.
Keywords: Connective affordances, environmental activism and journalism, Indonesia, resource nationalism, social media
The article is available as open access at Sage Journals' webpage.