Teaching journalism ethics: Constructing model for teaching journalism ethics on the basis of local wisdom to create peace journalism

摘要

AbstractEthics or morale is becoming a serious matter in journalism practices in Indonesia lately. The increase in ethical offences done by Indonesian journalists is the symptom of the delicate morale conduct among Indonesian Journalists. This is an indication that Indonesia journalism education faces a serious problem. Through experimental method, this study was trying to construct and examine a teaching model enabling students to have better understanding about journalism ethics and to explore moral obligation on the basis of local wisdom so that they have wider ethical reasoning to explore moral obligation. This study concludes that sequential order of teaching materials/content plays very important role in the success of the method. The use of Javaness phrases significantly improves the students’ understanding about morale reasoning and its application in journalistic practices.