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Written by Dina Indrasafitri
Originally published in SBS.
Sep 23, 2024
Written by Dina Indrasafitri
Originally published in SBS.
Sep 23, 2024
The 2024 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival will attempt to uphold its theme ‘Satyam Vada Dharmam Chara’, or ‘Speak the Truth, Practice Kindness’ through conversations about media ethics; the perils of speaking the truth and about marginalised voices that are often left unheard.
“One of the ways that the theme materialised was looking at the media landscape and how the ‘truth’ is presented through both the mainstream media outlets and alternative media outlets and throughout the year we saw a lot of very unfortunate conflicts that revealed to us how different the stories are from two separate sides and how much we need media to be more impartial,” The Festival’s Head of International Programming Hannah Curtis said in an interview with SBS Indonesian.
“One of the ways that the theme materialised was looking at the media landscape and how the ‘truth’ is presented through both the mainstream media outlets and alternative media outlets and throughout the year we saw a lot of very unfortunate conflicts that revealed to us how different the stories are from two separate sides and how much we need media to be more impartial,” The Festival’s Head of International Programming Hannah Curtis said in an interview with SBS Indonesian.
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