{"id":17423,"date":"2025-11-19T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/?p=17423"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:38:25","slug":"fisip-umsu-and-perum-lkbn-antara-hold-fgd-on-strengthening-the-national-media-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/fisip-umsu-and-perum-lkbn-antara-hold-fgd-on-strengthening-the-national-media-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"FISIP UMSU and Perum LKBN ANTARA Hold FGD on Strengthening the National Media Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"780\">The Communication Studies Program (Prodi IKO) of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara (FISIP UMSU), together with the Master\u2019s Program in Communication Studies (MIKOM) of UMSU Postgraduate School, in collaboration with the National News Agency of Indonesia (LKBN) ANTARA, North Sumatra Bureau, held a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) at the UMSU campus on Jalan Mukhtar Basri, Medan, Wednesday (19\/11). The activity, also supported by the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) of the Republic of Indonesia, carried the theme: <strong data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"780\">\u201cThe Future of LKBN ANTARA: Strategic Synergy for Strengthening the National Media Ecosystem.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"1216\">In addition to participants from the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, the North Sumatra Office of Communication and Information (Diskominfo Sumut), academics, and media activists, the FGD was also attended by representatives and managers of several print, online, and radio media outlets in North Sumatra, such as <em data-start=\"1110\" data-end=\"1194\">Harian Waspada, Harian Mimbar Umum, Harian Orbit, Waspada.id, Medanbisnisdaily.com<\/em>, and <em data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1215\">Voks FM Medan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1672\">The speakers at the event included <strong data-start=\"1253\" data-end=\"1274\">M. Taufik Hidayat<\/strong> from the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia as well as a member of the PSO Verification Team, <strong data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1423\">Irwan Arfa<\/strong>, Head of the North Sumatra Bureau of ANTARA, <strong data-start=\"1469\" data-end=\"1480\">Suryato<\/strong>, Executive Editor III of ANTARA, <strong data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1532\">Porman Mahulae<\/strong>, Head of the IKP Division of Diskominfo North Sumatra, and <strong data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1612\">Dr. Ribut Priadi<\/strong>, Lecturer of the Communication Studies Program, FISIP UMSU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1674\" data-end=\"2131\">\u201cWe deliberately involved the campus, in this case the Communication Studies Program of FISIP UMSU, as a partner. This FGD was carefully designed with a relevant theme, and we hope it will generate ideas and thoughts related to strengthening the national media, including LKBN ANTARA,\u201d said <strong data-start=\"1965\" data-end=\"1979\">Irwan Arfa<\/strong>, Head of the North Sumatra Bureau of LKBN ANTARA, during a meeting with the leadership of the Communication Studies Program and the FISIP UMSU Deanery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2545\">FISIP UMSU, particularly the Communication Studies Program, warmly welcomed the activity. \u201cFGDs like this are very beneficial for developing the media ecosystem. We in the Communication Studies Program certainly also share responsibility for strengthening that ecosystem. Hopefully, this FGD collaboration will become one of our contributions,\u201d said <strong data-start=\"2483\" data-end=\"2501\">Akhyar Anshori<\/strong>, Head of the Communication Studies Program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2547\" data-end=\"2957\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Meanwhile, <strong data-start=\"2558\" data-end=\"2574\">Arifin Saleh<\/strong>, Dean of FISIP UMSU, stated that the collaboration between FISIP UMSU and LKBN ANTARA North Sumatra has been ongoing for a long time. The partnership has been formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and continues to this day. \u201cThis FGD is one implementation of that collaboration. Hopefully, it will continue and have a positive impact on both institutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Communication Studies Program (Prodi IKO) of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara (FISIP UMSU), together with the Master\u2019s Program in Communication Studies (MIKOM) of UMSU Postgraduate School, in collaboration with the National News Agency of Indonesia (LKBN) ANTARA, North Sumatra Bureau, held a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1786,19],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17425,"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423\/revisions\/17425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17423"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsu.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}