Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze

The issue of deliberate forest fires that set illegally in Indonesia by plantation companies in their slashand-burn forests to clear lands for lucrative palm oil plantations and its caused transboundary haze became a hot issue for discussion. These fires have a negative influence on Indonesia and i...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Fadel Arandas, Loh, Yoke Ling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16120/
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description The issue of deliberate forest fires that set illegally in Indonesia by plantation companies in their slashand-burn forests to clear lands for lucrative palm oil plantations and its caused transboundary haze became a hot issue for discussion. These fires have a negative influence on Indonesia and its neighbourhood countries, especially on their financial and human resources such as environment, economy, properties, and people. Using the right strategies in responding to any crisis determines the success of its management and coping with that crisis with minimal losses. This study aimed to examine the communication crisis response by Indonesia to this crisis by using image repair theory. Also, this study examined how image repair strategies were used by Indonesia. This study analysed the content of news stories from the website of the New Straits Times newspaper. The time frame of this study was from 2015 to 2019. A total of 87 news stories have pertained to Indonesian response, and 37 stories included image repair strategies. Among the strategies of image repair theory, corrective action strategy was the most dominant with 70%, followed by 10.8% for each shift the blame and attack accuser. The least used strategies were mortification and simple denial with 5.4% and 2.7% respectively.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:161202021-01-31T14:44:31Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16120/ Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze Mohammed Fadel Arandas, Loh, Yoke Ling The issue of deliberate forest fires that set illegally in Indonesia by plantation companies in their slashand-burn forests to clear lands for lucrative palm oil plantations and its caused transboundary haze became a hot issue for discussion. These fires have a negative influence on Indonesia and its neighbourhood countries, especially on their financial and human resources such as environment, economy, properties, and people. Using the right strategies in responding to any crisis determines the success of its management and coping with that crisis with minimal losses. This study aimed to examine the communication crisis response by Indonesia to this crisis by using image repair theory. Also, this study examined how image repair strategies were used by Indonesia. This study analysed the content of news stories from the website of the New Straits Times newspaper. The time frame of this study was from 2015 to 2019. A total of 87 news stories have pertained to Indonesian response, and 37 stories included image repair strategies. Among the strategies of image repair theory, corrective action strategy was the most dominant with 70%, followed by 10.8% for each shift the blame and attack accuser. The least used strategies were mortification and simple denial with 5.4% and 2.7% respectively. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16120/1/44692-144235-1-PB.pdf Mohammed Fadel Arandas, and Loh, Yoke Ling (2020) Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 36 (4). pp. 294-307. ISSN 0128-1496 https://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1360
spellingShingle Mohammed Fadel Arandas,
Loh, Yoke Ling
Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze
title Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze
title_full Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze
title_fullStr Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze
title_full_unstemmed Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze
title_short Indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze
title_sort indonesian crisis communication response after deliberate forest fires and transboundary haze
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16120/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16120/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16120/1/44692-144235-1-PB.pdf