ASTEKI: Indonesian Community TV
In 2011, Engagemedia established a partnership with ASTEKI, a local television association in Indonesia to train its members across Indonesia about online video distribution and subtitling.
Video for Change: Previous projects
Bhinneka Tinggal Duka
Bhinneka Tinggal Duka? (Diversity Leaves Grief?) looks at the rising tide of religious intolerance in Indonesia. In 2012 EngageMedia partnered with a coalition of groups to run a film competition and produce a compilation of Creative Commons licensed videos and education materials for feminist, queer and diversity activists to use in their campaigns for greater tolerance.
Chindwin: Myanmar Video Camp
Camp Chindwin brought together 33 video activists, filmmakers and citizen journalists from Southeast Asia to a camp in Myanmar from 3-6 June 2015.
Crossroads: Migrant Worker Stories
Crossroads is a video advocacy initiative aimed at developing and strengthening the advocacy and documentation capacity of migrant workers, refugees and stateless persons and their support organisations.
Dispatches: EngageMedia TV
EngageMedia content is now being screened on TV! We are broadcasting our new TV show called “Serangkai Kabar dan Cerita” on several local TV stations in Indonesia affiliated with our local and community TV partners.
Indonesian Migrant Worker Stories
In 2012 EngageMedia worked with Indonesian migrant workers and migrant worker advocacy organisations to build their capacity in video and online technologies. This involved a number of hands-on workshops in Kuala Lumpur and West Java. The result was an online and DVD compilation.
Khaw Than: Minority Rights in Myanmar
A film screening, outreach and engagement program to develop understanding of minority rights in Myanmar.
Lingua: Open Subtitles
Lingua In partnership with Amara, we’ve enabled online subtitling of
Moviemento: Anti-corruption youth video
Collaborating with Transparency International Indonesia (TII), EngageMedia launched ‘Moviemento’, a video project to train youth communities campaigning on issues such as gender, the environment, social development, and culture. The youth would then produce their own videos with their perspectives on corruption.
Sambel: Melayu Video Camp
EngageMedia has hosted two regional Southeast Asia video skills and networking events, bringing together activists from Southern Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor and West Papua.
Suara Baru
Suara Baru (New Voices) invited young filmmakers to create video stories in order to understand youth perspectives on the elections, its candidates, and ultimately their hopes and aspirations of 2014 Indonesia’s Presidential Elections.
Traveling Projector
In May 2014, EngageMedia traveled over 18 days across the island of Java, Indonesia, to screen social justice and environmental videos in 11 different cities. The Traveling Projector tour aimed to bring our online outreach offline — directly to audiences to engage them in discussion on the issues highlighted in the videos.
Video Slam 2013: Remixing the 1965 State Propaganda Film
On September 2013, EngageMedia and Bandung arts group Common Room Networks Foundation brought together 18 video makers from Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta to remix the 1984 film Penghianatan G30S/PKI, which depicts the historical events of September 30 to October 1, 1965.
VideoChronic: Video Activism in Indonesia
In 2009 EngageMedia and Kunci Cultural Studies Center launched VideoChronic, a collaborative research project charting how activists are engaging with video technologies in Indonesia, addressing some of the issues of technology-mediated social movements, and exploring the potential and limitations of online video distribution.
WTO Unplugged!
The WTO 9th Ministerial Conference was held in Nusa Dua, Bali, on December 3 – 6, 2013. While thousands of journalists came from around the world to report on the meeting, independent journalists were not able to get media pass to cover the event inside the venue. In response to the WTO Ministerial Conference, EngageMedia held a Workshop and Alternative Media Center in Bali from 2-6 December 2013 for the Indonesian video journalists/activists who were not able to join the main conference.
