Missing the boat: Indonesian Kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from East Timor
The Indonesian government reported that a group of people had stolen the Tasi Diak (Good Sea) 119, a wooden fishing boat, from the port of Hera in May 1995. Five days after the boat was reported missing, it arrived in Darwin, Australia, carrying seventeen Timorese: 15 young men, 2 women and a baby....
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| description | The Indonesian government reported that a group of people had stolen the Tasi Diak (Good Sea) 119, a wooden fishing boat, from the port of Hera in May 1995. Five days after the boat was reported missing, it arrived in Darwin, Australia, carrying seventeen Timorese: 15 young men, 2 women and a baby. This was to be the only boat arrival of asylum seekers from Indonesian-occupied East Timor in the 1990s. The boat passengers claimed asylum on the grounds of Indonesian persecution but were sent to detention at the Curtin Air Force Base in Western Australia for approximately 7 weeks in June-July 1995. This paper analyses the coverage, between June and August 1995, of East Timor generally and the boat voyage specifically in the Indonesian national newspaper, Kompas compared to the coverage in Australian newspapers. The paper shows the constraints experienced by a media operating under the authoritarian New Order regime in a time of media bans and the jailing of writers and activists. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-867702022-01-11T04:45:40Z Missing the boat: Indonesian Kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from East Timor Hearman, Vannessa Job, Peter Da Silva, Antero Canas Mendes, Nuno Da Costa Ximenes, Alarico Barreto Soares, Mica Niner, Sara Tam, Therese 2103 - Historical Studies 1606 - Political Science 2001 - Communication and Media Studies The Indonesian government reported that a group of people had stolen the Tasi Diak (Good Sea) 119, a wooden fishing boat, from the port of Hera in May 1995. Five days after the boat was reported missing, it arrived in Darwin, Australia, carrying seventeen Timorese: 15 young men, 2 women and a baby. This was to be the only boat arrival of asylum seekers from Indonesian-occupied East Timor in the 1990s. The boat passengers claimed asylum on the grounds of Indonesian persecution but were sent to detention at the Curtin Air Force Base in Western Australia for approximately 7 weeks in June-July 1995. This paper analyses the coverage, between June and August 1995, of East Timor generally and the boat voyage specifically in the Indonesian national newspaper, Kompas compared to the coverage in Australian newspapers. The paper shows the constraints experienced by a media operating under the authoritarian New Order regime in a time of media bans and the jailing of writers and activists. 2018 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86770 English https://tlstudies.org/conference-proceedings/2017-conference/ Swinburne University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | 2103 - Historical Studies 1606 - Political Science 2001 - Communication and Media Studies Hearman, Vannessa Missing the boat: Indonesian Kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from East Timor |
| title | Missing the boat: Indonesian Kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from East Timor |
| title_full | Missing the boat: Indonesian Kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from East Timor |
| title_fullStr | Missing the boat: Indonesian Kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from East Timor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Missing the boat: Indonesian Kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from East Timor |
| title_short | Missing the boat: Indonesian Kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from East Timor |
| title_sort | missing the boat: indonesian kompas newspaper’s 1995 reporting on asylum seekers from east timor |
| topic | 2103 - Historical Studies 1606 - Political Science 2001 - Communication and Media Studies |
| url | https://tlstudies.org/conference-proceedings/2017-conference/ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86770 |