Investigative Reporting in Corruption Disclosure by the Journalist on Indonesia Newspapers

Abstract

The application of investigative reporting by journalist of Indonesian Newspapers is not fully affected by sociopolitical condition or fear of the political system applied by past regimes, but mostly affected by the vision of the media and fully depends on work ethos of the journalist as a system built-in the media institution. Technical writing ability or knowledge and understanding of the printed media in Indonesian journalist in investigative reporting must be acknowledged as very minimal. As a consequence, the effort to uncover the corruption cases through investigative reporting have not been done much by the journalists. The level of independency of the journalist is still weak especially due to the pressure to media owners and policy of editing. In practice the work of the team is not a must in doing investigative reporting.