Are Indonesian Newspapers Yesterdays News?
Print media companies in the United States are falling by the wayside in the face of stiff competition from more technologically advanced media. But the changing times haven’t affected Indonesian print media as drastically as in the West, local media experts say. At least, not yet. “There will be fewer conventional media outlets, but I don’t think they will become obsolete,” said Roy Suryo, a media and technology expert who was speaking at a seminar titled Toward the Death of Print Media. Officials of various media outlets who attended the talk organized by the Indonesian Journalists Association and the Press Council said they recognized the shift to online news material by Indonesian consumers. But there were still a number of factors keeping print media outlets afloat. Online media requires the use of gadgets and Roy said that conventional media such as newspapers or magazines enjoyed the advantage in portability. “Only when they could be as light as paper would they start to become
