Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia
The problem of the haze caused by huge forest fires persists as an annual transboundary problem for Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. In 2015, the problem was worse than ever before, affecting many countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and causing respiratory ail...
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| author | Rochyadi-Reetz, Mira Budiono, Olivia Deskarina Wolling, Jens |
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| description | The problem of the haze caused by huge forest fires persists as an annual transboundary problem for
Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. In 2015, the problem was worse than ever before, affecting
many countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and causing respiratory
ailments for more than half a million Indonesians. This study explores the media framing of the haze
problem in Indonesia from June to December 2015. Using Entman’s framing approach, it investigates
how media outlets from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore covered the crisis. Articles from six online
media outlets published in these three countries were analysed. Using cluster analysis, this research
identified three frames as follows: (1) crisis frame, (2) immediate action frame, and (3) regular problem
frame. The first cluster/frame consists of articles giving high salience to all problems and causes of the
forest fires provoking the haze. In contrast, the second frame mostly ignores causes and problems and
focuses almost exclusively on the need for immediate action. The third frame, which represents more
than 60% of the articles, covers the haze problem as a regular issue without emphasizing prominently
either the different aspects of the problem itself or its causes and solutions. Further results show that
the media in Singapore and Malaysia used the crisis frame more often than the media in Indonesia. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:160632021-01-21T02:30:37Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16063/ Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia Rochyadi-Reetz, Mira Budiono, Olivia Deskarina Wolling, Jens The problem of the haze caused by huge forest fires persists as an annual transboundary problem for Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. In 2015, the problem was worse than ever before, affecting many countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and causing respiratory ailments for more than half a million Indonesians. This study explores the media framing of the haze problem in Indonesia from June to December 2015. Using Entman’s framing approach, it investigates how media outlets from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore covered the crisis. Articles from six online media outlets published in these three countries were analysed. Using cluster analysis, this research identified three frames as follows: (1) crisis frame, (2) immediate action frame, and (3) regular problem frame. The first cluster/frame consists of articles giving high salience to all problems and causes of the forest fires provoking the haze. In contrast, the second frame mostly ignores causes and problems and focuses almost exclusively on the need for immediate action. The third frame, which represents more than 60% of the articles, covers the haze problem as a regular issue without emphasizing prominently either the different aspects of the problem itself or its causes and solutions. Further results show that the media in Singapore and Malaysia used the crisis frame more often than the media in Indonesia. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16063/1/40843-130457-1-SM.pdf Rochyadi-Reetz, Mira and Budiono, Olivia Deskarina and Wolling, Jens (2020) Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 36 (2). pp. 415-433. ISSN 0128-1496 https://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1280 |
| spellingShingle | Rochyadi-Reetz, Mira Budiono, Olivia Deskarina Wolling, Jens Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia |
| title | Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia |
| title_full | Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia |
| title_short | Regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia |
| title_sort | regularity of a crisis: media framing of the 2015 transboundary haze issue in indonesia, singapore, and malaysia |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16063/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16063/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16063/1/40843-130457-1-SM.pdf |