Kerajaan Media Bali Post

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Media Cetak
Meski keran demokratisasi media telah dibuka, nyatanya bisnis media di Bali tetap saja dikuasai empat pemain utama: Bali Post Group, Radar Bali, NusaBali, dan Warta Bali. Saat ini memang masih ada harian lain seperti Fajar Bali, Patroli Post, dan Koran Bali –yang konon akan terbit kembali dengan saham terbesar dimiliki wakil bupati Badung saat ini, Ketut Sudikerta. Namun tiga media itu bisa disebut hanya sebagai figuran. Sedangkan di antara empat harian utama itu Bali Post jelas masih bisa disebut sebagai raja lokal.

Dalam penawaran pemasangan iklannya Bali Post menyebut oplah mereka mencapai 100.000 eksemplar. Data ini jelas lebih besar dari data sesungguhnya karena untuk kepentingan bisnis iklan. Sebagai bandingan majalah SWA edisi 20 Agustus 2003 menulis oplah harian Bali Post mencapai 90.000 eksemplar atau senilai Rp 64,8 milyar per tahun. Sedangkan menurut penelitian Santra (2006) oplah harian Bali Post sebanyak 87.500 eksemplar pada 2006 lalu.

Besarnya Bali Post tidak bisa dilepaskan dari Ketut Nadha sebagai pendiri sekaligus pemilik modal awal. Mendirikan koran bernama Suara Indonesia pada 1948, saat revolusi bersenjata masih terjadi, jelas bukan hal mudah apalagi dilihat dari sisi bisnis. Namun Nadha bersama dua rekannya bisa membuat Suara Indonesia bertahan. Terbit dalam bentuk majalah dan dicetak handset, Suara Indonesia pun terbit tidak tentu.

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Sejarah Perkembangan Media di Bali

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Zaman Kolonial Belanda
Untuk memahami sejarah media di Bali tidak bisa dilepaskan dari adanya sistem kasta di Bali. Putra Agung (2001) menyebut pelapisan masyarakat di Bali pada abad XX sangat ditentukan oleh sistem kasta, meski saat ini kasta itu sudah tidak sepenuhnya berlaku dalam hubungan sosial sehari-hari. Pada dasarnya stratifikasi sosial itu terbagi jadi empat kasta. Brahmana sebagai kasta tertinggi untuk mereka yang jadi pemuka agama. Ksatria untuk golongan bangsawan. Wesia untuk kalangan birokrat. Tiga kelompok ini disebut tri wangsa. Dia luar tri wangsa ada jaba untuk warga masyarakat biasa.

Sejarah media di Bali dimulai pada 1923 dengan lahirnya Shanti Adnyana dalam bentuk kalawarta (newsletter). Menurut Kembar Karepun, dalam manuskrip untuk buku tentang pertentangan kasta di Bali, Shanti Adnyana, berarti Pikiran Damai, itu berupa majalah bulanan yang diterbitkan organisasi Shanti. Organisasi yang berpusat di Singaraja, Bali utara ini bergerak di bidang sosial dan pendidikan, termasuk penerbitan. Pendirinya dari semua kasta.

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Abuan village implementing fair trade system

Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Denpasar

Ni Nengah Rasa was desperate, to the point she was prepared to sell the property she had just inherited from her late husband to pay the Rp 5 million bill for his cremation.

Men Nengah, as she is known to neighbors in their small village near the Kintamani resort in Bangli, was given six months to pay the debt.

But no matter how hard Men Nengah, 51, worked on her little plot of land, she was never able to save enough money.

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Bali farmer discovers benefits of going organic

– July 20, 2007

Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Tabanan

When I Gede Hanjaya’ wife Franziska Rapp was suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer, her doctor suggested she undergo surgery and avoid foods with chemical additives.

Hanjaya, a successful garment manufacturer, changed his life to do so. Leaving his business, he developed an organic farming site in his hometown of Tabanan regency, around 70 kilometers west of Denpasar.

“I wanted to produce healthy food for my family,” he said.

For the last 10 years, Hanjaya and his family have consumed fresh, chemical- and pesticide-free produce, with good results.

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Resistant virus threatens people with HIV/AIDS

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 02/08/2007 4:57 PM | Life

Anton Muhajir, Contributors, Denpasar

Thirty-four-year Agung has serious problems with his eyesight. His right eye is not functioning at all, while the vision in his left eye is filled with black dots. Agung works as a truck driver delivering gasoline from the Pesanggaran area of South Denpasar to places throughout the provincial capital of Bali.

For the last few months, Agung could no longer see things clearly. The father of one can see nothing but blurred images within a five-meter distance.

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'Playboy' back with more skin but ad pages laid bare

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 06/08/2006 2:42 PM

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The second edition of Playboy Indonesia is not only free of steamy nude pictorials, but also conspicuously lacking in advertisements.

White space occupied the pages where the glossy advertisements that filled April’s first edition should have been placed.

“”These blank pages are dedicated to our loyal clients who have been threatened against placing ads in this magazine,”” is the message from publisher PT Velvet Silver Media on the blank pages, acknowledging unnamed cell phone, cologne and tobacco advertisers.

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Photos reveal strength, optimism

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Fri, 05/26/2006 1:25 PM | Life

I Wayan Juniartha, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar, Bali

Anybody could sense the tristesse in his faltering voice. Yet, along with the anguish there was also a trace of hard-nosed realism to his words. Robbie Baria, a young photographer, both lamented and rejoiced at the weeks he had spent with a poor, HIV-infected housewife at Pemuteran, a coastal village in northern Bali.

“”The entire experience has deeply affected my life. It put me in face-to-face contact with the harsh reality of poverty and suffering. On the other hand, it also introduced me to an individual, who, above all else, refused to give in to one of the world’s brutal tragedies,”” he said.

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Orphaned due to HIV/AIDS in North Bali village

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 08/04/2005 9:05 AM | Life

Anton Muhajir, Contributor/Singaraja

Eleven-year-old Gede Edi Suantara was once a happy and healthy boy. His life turned dark and miserable when his beloved mother Kadek Widiasih died a year ago following his father who also died two years ago.

Raised by his uncle, Komang Sunetra, the orphaned boy is a depressed teenager. “”He was once a very smart boy who often got the top grade in his class. But since his mother died of HIV/AIDS, he drastically changed,”” the uncle said.

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Property boom can have negative impact on local people

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 02/17/2005 11:27 AM | Life

Anton Muhajir, Contributor, Denpasar

It was drizzling that Saturday, but Ketut Karja and his two friends were still working in their rice field in Legian, on the outskirts of north Kuta. Across the street, several Westerners were seen sitting in the gazebo of a restaurant. They were separated only by several rice fields and a highway known as “”Sunset Road””.

It is a new road that connects Legian, Kerobokan and nearby areas with Nusa Dua, Jimbaran and other tourist areas in the south.

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Exhibition explores journalistic flaws, hardships

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 08/26/2004 2:30 PM | Life

I Wayan Juniartha, The Jakarta Post/Denpasar, Bali

The Bali Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI Bali) has a unique way of celebrating its 10th anniversary — organizing a cartoon exhibition, where most of the work deals with the dark side of journalism, from news-spinning and insinuation to the prevailing culture of bribery among local journalists.

Titled “”Journalists in the Eyes of Cartoonists””, the exhibition features 32 works of 17 local cartoonists, including some of the island’s most respected cartoonists such as Ida Bagus Marti naya, Kadek Jango Pramartha, Wayan Gunasta and Cece Riberu. Held in the Bali Museum in downtown Denpasar, the exhibition runs through Aug. 28.

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