[New-imc] Jakarta IMC's Editoerial Policy and Misioon Statement

[Margiyono .]

Dear people,

We completed our discussion on Jakarta IMC editorial policy and mission 
statement in Bali. We are in Bali to cover antiglobalisation. Coen is in 
Philipina to make investigative report on Terrorism for Pantau magazine and 
Indra is in Jakarta because works for SC Tv. We had discused it in Jakarta 
before, and completed in Bali. Pardon for being late.

Margiyono
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The Jakarta IMC Editorial Collective’s 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.


Jakarta IMC’s 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.


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