WATCHING SI DOEL To Nyak, Babe, and Abang, and in loving memory of Encang Ben van Bronckhorst Cover illustration: The krismon forced Karnos Film to shoot a scene about Doel in Switzerland on a refuse dump in Jakarta (courtesy of Karnos Film) VERHANDELINGEN VAN HET KONINKLIJK INSTITUUT VOOR TAAL-, LAND- EN VOLKENKUNDE 242 Klarijn Loven WATCHING SI dOEL Television, language, and cultural identity in contemporary Indonesia KITLV Press Leiden 2008 Published by: KITLV Press Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) PO Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands website: www.kitlv.nl e-mail:
[email protected] KITLV is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Cover: Creja ontwerpen, Leiderdorp ISBN 978 90 67182-79-6 © 2008 Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the copyright owner. Printed in the Netherlands Contents Introduction: Watching Si Doel, studying Indonesian television 1 Si Doel and the New Order 3 Theoretical framework 5 Previous studies on media, discourse, and Indonesian media 9 ‘Unframing’ Si Doel: The DVD 11 Part I Si Doel, a discourse of Indonesian television I From Balai Pustaka to UNICEF The mediatization of ‘Betawi Doel’ 17 Child of Betawi, the movie 22 Child of modernity 27 Educated