scholarly journals Not just About Representative: When democracy needs females and their competency to run Indonesian government public relations to management level

Heliyon ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. e08714
Author(s):  
Rachmat Kriyantono ◽  
Rachma Ida ◽  
George Towar Ikbal Tawakkal ◽  
Reza Safitri
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Erlinda Puspita Ningrum

Public relations as an occupational group struggles for legitimacy in society so that they need to move toward professionalization. This study investigated the Indonesian government's public relations efforts in professionalizing the field. Since 2015, under the recent presidency of Joko Widodo, there is enthusiasm toward a new government initiative called Government Public Relations (GPR) which signals professional competencies. How this GPR initiative relates to the professionalization of public relations underpins this study. In doing so, it applied two qualitative approaches: first, a constructive approach to the structure of professionalization by reviewing six government policies related to the practice and profession of public relations; second, an interpretive approach to the perceptions and reflections of those government policies by in-depth interviewing ten practitioners from both central and regional government agencies. In Indonesia, the findings showed that licensing is at the forefront of the professionalization of public relations mainly through education, training, expertise, skills, ethical codes, and professional association. The emergence of ICT urged the enhancement of public relations professional roles in creating good governance, including the openness of public information and public involvement. Although these concepts are partially understood by practitioners due to decentralization and early phase implementation, Indonesian government public relations is ‘on the move to becoming professionals.’ Based on these findings, this study showed that the professionalization of government public relations, including the creation of good governance, is a mutual relationship working in a cycle process in the provision of a democratic political system. To implement this process, it is important to consider public sector characteristics in the creation of government policies to make it fully understandable, achievable, and sustainable. Keywords: Professionalism, Public Relations, Indonesian Government ABSTRAK Hubungan Masyarakat (Humas) sebagai salah satu kelompok okupasi sulit mendapatkan pengakuan di masyarakat, sehingga perlu meningkatkan profesionalitas. Sejak tahun 2015, dibawah pemerintahan Joko Widodo, ada antusiasme terhadap program pemerintah bernama Government Public Relations (GPR) yang mensyaratkan kompetensi profesi humas. Bagaimana GPR mempengaruhi peningkatan profesionalitas humas pemerintah melatarbelakangi studi ini. Penelitian terdahulu mengidentifikasi tiga cara peningkatan profesionalitas, yaitu bottom-up, top-down, dan kolaborasi. Studi ini menginvestigasi upaya yang dilakukan Pemerintah Indonesia dan praktisi humas pemerintah untuk membuat sektor ini lebih profesional. Untuk itu, digunakan dua pendekatan kualitatif: pertama, pendekatan konstruktif tentang praktik dan profesi humas pemerintah dengan meninjau enam kebijakan publik; kedua, pendekatan interpretatif melalui wawancara secara mendalam terhadap persepsi dan refleksi sepuluh praktisi humas pemerintah, baik di tingkat pusat maupun daerah tentang penerapan kebijakan tersebut. Hasil penelitian menyatakan bahwa di Indonesia, licensing atau SK Pengangkatan Jabatan Fungsional Tertentu (JFT) Pranata Humas menjadi syarat pertama untuk meningkatkan profesionalitas humas pemerintah, diikuti dengan Penetapan Angka Kredit (PAK) yang mencakup pendidikan, pelatihan, keahlian, keterampilan, kode etik, dan asosiasi profesi. Perkembangan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK) turut mendorong peningkatan peran humas pemerintah dalam mewujudkan tatakelola pemerintahan yang baik melalui keterbukaan informasi publik dan partisipasi publik. Walaupun baru separuh dipahami oleh praktisi karena faktor desentralisasi dan tahap awal implementasi, kedua hal ini mendorong humas pemerintah bergerak menuju profesionalisme. Studi ini menunjukkan bahwa proses peningkatan profesionalitas humas pemerintah merupakan hubungan yang timbal balik dalam sebuah siklus dengan dukungan sistem politik demokratis. Untuk mengimplementasikan proses ini, pembuatan kebijakan publik perlu mempertimbangkan karakteristik unik sektor pemerintahan agar dapat sepenuhnya dipahami, diterima, dan berkelanjutan. Kata Kunci: Profesionalitas, Hubungan Masyarakat, Pemerintah Indonesia


Jurnal Common ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uud Wahyudin ◽  
Dedi Rumawan Erlandia

Era globalisasi menuntut sebuah kota untuk mengelola citranya dan menjadikan citra itu sebagai komoditas, bersaing untuk menjadi yang terbaik. Media massa memainkan peran penting sebagai salah satu media pemasaran dalam membentuk city branding untuk sebuah kota. Dengan demikian, humas pemerintah harus melakukan komunikasi interaktif dengan media massa atau pers.Public Relations dan mitranya, media massa atau pers, tidak dapat dipisahkan satu sama lain. Melalui media massa, Public Relations sebagai strategi promosi city branding dapat menyampaikan informasi tentang kota secara lebih komprehensif.Penerapan branding kota pemasaran melalui media massa oleh public relations pemerintah, dapat dilakukan dengan membuat profil kota / daerah yang harus disebarluaskan ke media massa di Indonesia dengan bahasa nasional, dengan desain yang menarik, sehingga mereka dapat dengan mudah menarik perhatian. Dalam praktik pemasaran atau promosi branding kota melalui media massa oleh humas pemerintah, setiap pemimpin daerah seperti walikota atau bupati harus diberi tanggung jawab untuk mempromosikan branding kota, terutama melalui media massa, baik cetak maupun elektronik. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The era of globalization requires a city to manage its image and make the image like a commodity, competing to be the best. Mass media plays an important role as one of the marketing media in forming city branding for a city. Thus, government public relations must make an interactive communication with the mass media or the press.Public Relations and its partners, mass media or the press, can not be separated from each other. Through mass media, Public Relations as a promotion strategy of city branding can convey information about a city more comprehensively.The application of marketing city branding through the mass media by government public relations, can be done by making a profile of the city/region that must be disseminated to the mass media in Indonesia with national language, with attractive designs, so that they can easily draw the attention. In the practice of marketing or promoting of city branding through the mass media by government public relations, every regional leader like a mayor or a regent must be given the responsibility to promote city branding, especially through mass media, both print and electronic.


Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordecai Lee

This article is an historical inquiry into the two scholars whose work served as the foundation of the academic study of public relations in public administration. Herman Beyle’s Governmental Reporting in 1928 and James McCamy’s Government Publicity in 1939 were seminal in their impact. Beyle explored the democratic purposes of government public relations, and McCamy, its pragmatic uses. In retrospect, both Beyle and McCamy had had an extraordinary insight, namely that the communication of information was an essential and increasing aspect of government. Since then, the subfield of government public relations has had its ups and downs, but may be on the rise again.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordecai Lee ◽  
Grant Neeley ◽  
Kendra Stewart

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Silvia Widya Kusumaningtyas ◽  
Zon Vanel

<span lang="IN">Social media is one type of new media that facilitates the process of communication among human. Social media makes it easy for users to communicate and share information in a wider range. At present, not only people use Instagram, but the government also needs to keep up with the time to participate in using Instagram as an online information media. Public Relations of the Salatiga Government is one of the public relations departments that uses Instagram as an online information media to provide information needed by the community.<br /> This research aimed to find out how the content of the information was<span>  </span>and how the role of instagram was as an information deliverance to the citizen by the public relations of Salatiga. Through qualitative methods research, data is collected by means of interviews and observations. The results showed that the Salatiga <span> </span>Government Public Relations Instagram account had a role to increase brand awareness, connect many people and as a source of information/ business promotion.Public Relations of the Salatiga Government considers that Instagram plays an active role in conveying information to the public. This is seen from the many positive responses received by the Salatiga City Government Public Relations during managing Instagram as a modern information deliverance.<span>     </span></span>


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