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Saturday, 2 April 2011

Code of Journalistic Ethics

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Freedom of opinion, expression, and the press is a human right that is protected Pancasila, the Constitution of 1945, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UN. Freedom of the press is a means of public to obtain information and communicate, in order to meet essential needs and improve the quality of human life. In realizing the freedom of the press, journalists Indonesia is also aware of the interest of the nation, social responsibility, diversity of society, and religious norms.

In carrying out the functions, rights, obligations and role, the press respect the rights of every person, because it's a professional and open press is required to be controlled by society.

To ensure the independence of the press and meet the public's right to obtain correct information, journalists Indonesia requires a moral basis and ethics of the profession as operational guidelines in maintaining public trust and upholding integrity and professionalism. On that basis, Indonesian journalists establish and abide by the Code of Conduct of Journalism:

Point 1
Indonesian journalists to be independent, to produce news that are accurate, balanced, and did not act in bad faith.

Interpretation:
  1. Independent means preaching events or facts according to the voice of conscience without interference, coercion, and the intervention of other parties, including the owner of a news company.
  2. Accurate means is believed right fit objective circumstances when the event occurs.
  3. Balanced means that all parties get equal opportunity.
  4. Did not act in bad faith means no deliberate intention and solely to inflict losses the other party. 
Point 2
Indonesian journalists to take professional manner in carrying out journalistic duties.

Interpretation:
  1. Professional ways are:
  2. show identity to the informant;
  3. respect the right to privacy;
  4. no bribe;
  5. produces factual and clear news source; engineering retrieval and loading or broadcasting images, photographs, sound equipped with information about the source and display are balanced;
  6. respect the guest speaker at the presentation of the traumatic experience of images, photographs, sounds;
  7. not plagiarism, including stating the coverage of other journalists as the work itself;
  8. the use of certain methods can be considered for investigative news coverage for the public interest. 
Point 3
Indonesian journalists always test information, preaching a balanced way, not mixing fact and opinion judges, as well as applying the presumption of innocence.

Interpretation:
  1. Examine the information means to check and recheck of the truth of the information.
  2. Balanced is giving space or time preaching to each party in proportion.
  3. Judgmental opinions are personal opinions of journalists. This is in contrast with interpretive opinion, that opinion in the form of interpretation of the facts journalist.
  4. The presumption of innocence is a principle not to judge a person. 
Point 4
Indonesian journalists do not make false news, defamation, sadistic and obscene.
Interpretation:
  1. Lying means something that is already known in advance by journalists as being inconsistent with the facts that occurred.
  2. Means the charges baseless slander deliberate with bad intentions.
  3. Means the cruel and sadistic knows no mercy.
  4. Means obscene depiction of erotic behavior with photos, images, sound, graphics or writing solely to arouse lust.
  5. In broadcasting images and sounds from archives, journalists included shooting time and sound. 
Point 5
Indonesian journalist does not mention the identity of victims of crime and broadcast decency and not to mention the identity of children who become perpetrators.
Interpretation:
  1. Identity is all data and information concerning a person who facilitates another person to keep track of.
  2. A child is aged less than 16 years old and unmarried. 
Point 6
Indonesian journalists were not abusing the profession and do not accept bribes.
Interpretation:
  1. Abusing profession is any action to take personal advantage of information obtained while on duty before the information becomes public knowledge.
  2. Bribery is any provision in the form of money, objects or facilities of the other party which affect independence. 
Point 7
Indonesian journalists have the right to refuse to protect informants who are not willing identity and whereabouts unknown, respect the provisions of the embargo, background information, and "off the record" in accordance with the agreement.
Interpretation:
  1. Rights rejected adalak right not to disclose the identity and whereabouts of speakers for the safety of informants and their families.
  2. The embargo is a delay loading or broadcast news sources according to demand.
  3. Background information is any information or data from sources that are broadcast or reported without citing his sources.
  4. "Off the record" means any information or data from sources that should not be published or reported. 
Point 8
Indonesian journalists do not write or broadcast news is based on prejudice or discrimination against someone on the basis of differences in ethnicity, race, color, religion, sex, and language and not degrading the weak, poor, sick, mental disability or physical disability.

Interpretation:
  1. Prejudice is a poor assumption about something before knowing clearly.
  2. Discrimination is a difference in treatment. 
Point 9
Indonesian journalists respect the rights of speakers about his private life, except for the public interest.

Interpretation:
  1. Respect the rights of speakers is restraint and caution.
  2. Private life are all facets of one's life and his family other than those relating to the public interest. 
Point 10
Indonesian journalists immediately revoke, revise, and improve the news erroneous and inaccurate accompanied by an apology to readers, listeners, or viewers.
Interpretation:
  1. Immediate action means the earliest possible date, either because there was no warning or an outside party.
  2. The apology was delivered when the error associated with the main substance. 
Point 11
Indonesian journalists serve right of reply and correction proportionally.
Interpretation:
  1. The right of reply is the right person or group of people to give a response or refutation of the news in the form of the fact that harm his good name.
  2. Right of correction is the right of every person to correct misinformation reported by the press, both about themselves and about others.
  3. Proportional means the equivalent of a news section that needs to be repaired. 
The final assessment for violations of journalistic ethics Press Council.

Sanctions for violations of the code of ethics of journalism done by the organization or company journalists and press

source: http://kuliahkomunikasi.com/2008/06/...lic-relations/

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