[Air-L] Internet as Political Tools : Indramayu Farmers going online

[Imam Ardhianto]

Dear AOIR members,

I've been helping farmers in producing blog sites on their achievement of
their modern-local sciences practicess of Farmer Field School. The awareness
of a political significants media such as internet are the implications of
their capacitiy to connected through wide range networks of academicians.
the precedents of this actions are the collaborations productions of Bisa
Dewek Documentary film between department of anthropology university of
Indonesia and IPPHTI (*Ikatan petani Pengendalian Hama Terpadu Indonesia)*.
It is interesting that internet are being used as political vehicles, the
use and the interpretations of internet media are becaming political to gain
funds and national/international acknowledgement of their knowledge
development in their activity. the blog sites are,
IPPHTI-Indramayu.Blogspot.com.


Thanks.
Imam Ardhianto
Center of Anthropology Studies, University of Indonesia
Depok, West Java, Indonesia