Swaberita

Swaberita is the first news site in Indonesia based on Citizen Journalism, public journalism or participatory journalism. The site gives wide opportunity for all of Indonesian (within the country and overseas) to play an active role in collecting, gathering, reporting, investigating and disseminating news and information.swa in means self and berita means news, swaberita literally means self-news. The site is managed by P.T. Global Siber Komunikasi

History

The idea dated back in 2004, when the 9.1-magnitude underwater earthquake caused a huge tsunami in Banda Aceh Indonesia, when amateur footage of the tragedy was broadcast to almost all broadcasting station and was much more popular than normal news coverage done by professional journalist. The first acquaintance with the word citizen journalism.

Taufik Kurniawan, who owns the idea of making this site, was disappointed as he was living abroad and needed to be exposed by home country news, when he couldn't find the news he wants to read on his once favorite online news site (detik.com). On the contrary he found a lot of news and information about his home country in a forum discussion

Although the domain swaberita.com and swaberita.net have been held since 2006, the construction of the online news site based on citizen journalism can only be materialized during the April 2008 with the help of his friend, Joko Nugroho, by creating an initiative called tijecorp ( from the word tee = 'T' and jee = 'J', which are their both initials )

The Content

The site featured like almost any offline publication in the country such as :Agenda, Berita, Classifieds, Ekonomi dan Bisnis, Gaya Hidup, Metropolitan, Nusantara, Olah Raga, Politik, Profil, Regional, Swarelease, Teknologi dan Wartafoto. Most of the content are news and information with some popular article as well.

Profil : Indonesian Overseas

One of the interesting part of this online publication is the Indonesian overseas section, which features Indonesian working abroad. It is interesting as it gives a motivation to Indonesian to work out of Indonesia in almost every field and position like IT, Banking, Telco, Oil and Gas, Hospitality, Construction, Education, Architecture etc.

ee also

* [http://community.kompas.com/ Citizen Journalism in kompas]
* [http://news.okezone.com/BeritaAnda/ Berita Anda Okezone]

External links

* [http://www.swaberita.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.swaberita.com/2008/04/26/swarelease/swaberita-new-paradigm-in-news-delivery-2.html Release on It's Official Site]
* [http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200804/1209218344.html other release]