Month: January 2022

Content from BPRWhat is art, anyway? From one Danish artist’s point of view, it’s pocketing 534,000 kroner in commission ($115,000 in Australian money) from a museum.Earlier this year, the Kunsten Museum of Art in Aalborg, Denmark paid artist Jens Haaning in advance to re-create two older paintings. Instead, he kept the money without doing the job and called it conceptual art.

Haaning labelled his art as Take the Money and Run and it’s simply two blank whiteboard frames without anything on them.Haaning rationalised his artwork this way:“The work is that I have taken their money,” he said. “It’s not theft. It is a breach of contract and breach of contract is part of the work.”The museum is actually displaying the two empty frames on display in its ongoing art show Work it Out.Breach of contract or not….. that’s thinking outside the box (or the square)!It’s important for those in radio (or in any business) to think differently, unconventionally or from a new perspective; not just to confront every issue with the same problem-solving processes.“Inside the box” is analogous with the current assumptions about a situation. Creative thinking acknowledges and rejects the accepted paradigm so as to generate new ideas.“Outside the box” pushes us to explore ideas that are creative and unusual and that are not limited or controlled by rules or tradition.When asked the question “Why do you do it that way?”… we have all heard someone say ”Because that’s the way we’ve always done it”.Well, perhaps next time challenge them to think outside the box for a new, better way of doing things.By David Kidd, BPR […]

The Supervisory Board of Radio Republik Indonesia has appointed Dr Hendrasmo as the new President Director of RRI.He succeeds Mohammad Rohanudin as President Director of the public radio network.Hendrasmo, 49, was previously President Commissioner of PT Prima Insan Sejahtera. He has a long record of public service, including senior positions at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

He has close ties with RRI, having served as part of an expert team in 2016-18, a consultant and trainer from 2009 to 2014 and a student event host from 1993 to 1997.He holds a Doctorate in Political Science from Padjadjaran University in Bandung and also has a Master’s degree in Political Communication from the University of Sheffield in the UK. […]

At a meeting in Kabul to assess opportunities and challenges of provincial radio stations, representatives of Afghanistan’s media houses sought government help as some media outlets have been shut down due to lack of financial resources.According to a report by Pajhwok Afghan news, one of the participants at the event, Zahidullah Angar, who heads a private radio station in Khost province, said that stations in many provinces were facing financial difficulties and there was nobody to defend the rights of the media. He also suggested forming a joint committee of government and media representatives to address media problems.He said: “The new government has not yet said if the old media law has been repealed, nor has it said that it should be broadcast accordingly.”

Ahmad Shah, head of a local station in Uruzgan, said stations in some provinces had stopped broadcasting because they could not pay their employees and called on the government to provide financial assiatence.Maulvi Abdul Wahed, head of strategic relations at the Ministry of Interior, assured security of the media and journalists and demanded that the broadcasts be conducted in accordance with Islamic and national values.He also said that the media should refrain from negative propaganda and spread positive news about the country to the world.Jamal Nasir Farahmand, the minister’s liaison and public relations officer, said the government had a positive attitude towards the media. “There are problems in the media, but we will work together and solve the problems,” he said.Representatives of the media also issued a resolution at the meeting calling on the new government to increase cooperation with the media in accessing information and provide them with credible sources of information.The resolution also said that local authorities in some provinces are imposing illegal restrictions on the media in violation of Islamic law and Afghan law. It also said that women are half of the society and neglecting them would lead to cultural and social crisis in the society. […]