Zonautara.com Team Wins As ‘Special Mention’ in Jakarta Editors Lab

Tessa Senduk
Penulis Tessa Senduk



MANADO, ZONAUTARA.com – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), support of Google News Lab were gathered some of the best Indonesian media innovators in Jakarta City to develop innovative journalism prototypes for election reporting.

The Zonautara.com team won the prestigious award at the Jakarta Editors Lab 2018 event. During the announcement of the winner, the team consisting of Ronny Buol, Rahadih Gedoan and Suhandri Lariwu did not expect that Zonautara.com to be recognized as an award winner as Special Mention.

“We came as an underdog team, because twelve other teams came from the big media,” said Rahadih on Monday (12/3/2018).

Another Special Mention winner was awarded to Team Katada. While the winner of Jakarta Editors Lab this year is Team Tempo.

Mata Desa Prototype developed by Zonautara.com team amazed the judges, consisting of Irene Jay Liu from Google News Lab, Kuek Ser Kuang Keng from DataN, Stanley Adi Prasetyo from the Press Council of Indonesia, Titi Anggraini from Perludem, and Sarah Toporoff from Global Editors Network.

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Chief Editor of Zonautara.com Ronny Buol while presenting Mata Desa prototype (Foto: zonautara.com)

Mata Desa is a mobile application that allows villagers could tell what they need in their village. Through this database, the villagers can get a reference which political party fits with their village development.

“This concept has cames through the observation that villagers have always been victims of political promises during the campaign season. The candidate came with program that did not fit what the villagers needed,” explained Ronny in front of the jury.

Mata Desa application helps villagers could see traces of political party records in previous elections. Villagers also can see who the candidate in accordance with the electoral district.

“We built this prototype just in two days, such a very tight competition. The national media come with the superior resources of the developer. But we just have good ideas and motivations. Maybe there is the important point,” said Suhandri.

Editors Lab is a worldwide series of hackathons hosted by the world’s leading newsrooms.

The participating organisation that followed in this year are Tempo, Katadata, Zona Utara, Kompas.com, Liputan6.com, CNN TV, Radar Bojonegoro, IDNTimes, Beritagar, Suara.com, Jakarta Post, Kabar Makassar and Universitas Multimedia Nusantara.

Sarah Toporoff from Global Editors Network (GEN) hopes Mata Desa prototype will be continues to be developed into an application that is ready to be distributed into the villagers and as a good platform in journalistic practice.

“There will opportunities for Zonautara.com to get support from GEN,” said Sarah.

While the Chairman of Press Council Stanley Adi Prasetyo, reminds to Zonautara.com about the security side of Mata Desa.

“We got many good experiences that we learned from this event. Of course it will be our asset to develop the news room in Zonautara.com and become the motivation of Mata Desa implementation,” said Chief Editor of Zonautara.com Ronny Buol.

 

Editor : Christo Senduk



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