Exercise 3

Polite and Elegance

Off course there are limitation in the newswebsite. For the Danish newspaper cartoons, definetely, I am not gonna link to that. Because it is humiliated the Muslim. And of course the video of beheading, because it is showing a brutality. The limit is always about politeness and ethics.

No one in this world that likes to be hurt, insulted, or humiliated. There for we di have to be very carefully publish the stories. Racism is not welcome too in the news website.

Sometime, dealing with such content is confusing. But we can choose the opposite content that still connecting to the stories. For beheading, we can put the photos of the sadness the family of the beheaded, progress report of the process, or other activity that connected.

It is the same with Danish newspaper cartoon. I dont know why the editor publish the cartoon. I think it is violates journalism ethics. When publish the story about the Danish newspaper cartoon, I will put the picture of the people protest or picture of the newspaper it self (the front page).

It is about how we choose to serve the content without loosing the newsworthy. We can publish the interesting stories without any harm to the ethics. Publish the news politely and elegance. It will make people respect to the news website too.

Exercise 2

Should news on the Web be less formal in tone than news on air or in newspapers? Why or why not?

I think formality still needed in the news website because we make newswebsite not for fun but to give the right information. Information based on data and fact. Not a gossip or fairytale.

But, to make people tires read the website (because read on the screen is 25% slower) we can make the newswebsite more easy reading to the people. Like using the bullets, graphics, picture then tell the whole stories in word.

Formality is about how to make the newswebsites is trusted and choose as the credible site. For the features stories, we can choose more friendly words. I think the concept is the same in the print and air.

Exersice 1

Finally, Founder of Aceh Free Movement Dies in His Homeland

THURSDAY (6/3/2010) Aceh mourning the death of Teuku Hasan Muhammad di Tiro. Hasan di Tiro, former leader of the now-dissolved Aceh Free Movement (GAM) died at Zainal Abidin Hospital in Banda Aceh. Hasan di Tiro died because infection of the heart and lungs.

Hari Teguh Patria/Serambi Indonesia

Irwandi Yusuf, Aceh Governor instructed to all the people of Aceh to raise the flag at half mast for three days. He also told to the people to prayed as a sign of mourning over the death of Hasan di Tiro.

Hasan di Tiro is one of the sad story in the history of Indonesian. He is a great-grandson of an Indonesian national hero, Teuku Cik Di Tiro. In 1976, he found GAM. The government sent troops to Aceh to dissolve GAM. Then GAM became one separatis groups in Indonesia. He lost his citizenship since that.

Then he fled to the United States before finally residing in Sweden after being granted Swedish citizenship. In 2008, Hasan di Tiro come home after Helsinki Agreement between Indonesian government and GAM. The people of Aceh honour him not for his fight for Aceh but also in his blue blood flowing Aceh fighters.

Helsinki Agreement became the new chapter of development in Aceh. Irwandi Yusuf, former member of GAM became the Aceh governor after the election. He was choosen by the the people. In the past, none of the former GAM member should not occupy this position.

Hari Teguh Patria/Serambi Indonesia

After a week in the hospital, Hasan di Tiro breathed his last in Aceh. He was born in Aceh, fight for Aceh, and finally died in Aceh, his homeland. And the most important thing is he died as Indonesian. One day after he got his citizenship.

On Wednesday (6/2/2010), Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto presented the citizenship certificate after paying Hasan a visit at the hospital.

Hasan di Tiro buried in family cemetery complex in Meureu village, Indrapuri, Aceh Besar. Present at the funeral procession, Irwandi Yusuf, Chairman of the House of Aceh, Hasbi Abdullah, former GAM leaders, Malek Mahmud, Zaini Abdullah, and hundreds of local people. Tomb of Hasan di Tiro side by side with his great grandfather's grave, Cik Di Tiro.

Sources : Republika, The Jakarta Post, Serambi Indonesia

Biography

Name : Teungku Hasan Muhammad di Tiro

Born : Pidie, Aceh, September 4^th September 1930

Parents : Tengku Pocut Fatimah (mother) and Tengku Muhammad Hasan (father)
Education :

• Faculty of Law, Indonesia Islam University, Jogjakarta Indonesia (1945)
• International Law of Colombia University

Wife : Dora (divorce)

Son : Karim Tiro (a doctor that teach in Unites States

Organization :

• Young Chief of Republic Indonesia Youngmen (Pemuda Republik Indonesia/PRI) in 1945
  
• Staff of Prime Minister II, Syafruddin Prawiranegara
  
• Presiden National Liberation Front of Acheh Sumatra

Internasional Experience :

• 1950 – 1954 : Information Official Indonesian Delegation in UNO in United States
• Chief of Mutabakh, Nonstructural Institution in Libya
• Honoured as Doctor in Law from Plano University, Texas, United States
• Founder Aceh Institute in United States
• 1973 : Great Advisor in World Muslim Conference from King Feisal, The King of Arab Saudi
  

Publication :

• The Legal Status of Acheh Sumatra under International Law (1980)

Source : Tempo