TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Don't worry, clinton is Megawati's brother'
T2 - The Mass Media, Rumours, Economic Structural Transformation and Delegitimization of Suharto's New Order
AU - Hidayat, Dedy Nur
PY - 2002/4
Y1 - 2002/4
N2 - This study explores the political significance of rumours — as public resistance to a repressive authoritarian communication structure — in the changing structure of the global economy, which is characterized by a high degree of capital mobility and an increasing separation of the entire financial sector from underlying, real economic activity. This study proposes that rumours — within a specific time period — may gain political significance in contributing to the delegitimization of a ruling regime. In Indonesia's case, rumours played a part at a specific historical juncture of the development of global capitalism — into which Indonesia became integrated in the 1970s — where human agencies' perceptions, fear, greed and sudden changes of heart are fundamental for capital mobility and the ruling regime's structural stability or change.
AB - This study explores the political significance of rumours — as public resistance to a repressive authoritarian communication structure — in the changing structure of the global economy, which is characterized by a high degree of capital mobility and an increasing separation of the entire financial sector from underlying, real economic activity. This study proposes that rumours — within a specific time period — may gain political significance in contributing to the delegitimization of a ruling regime. In Indonesia's case, rumours played a part at a specific historical juncture of the development of global capitalism — into which Indonesia became integrated in the 1970s — where human agencies' perceptions, fear, greed and sudden changes of heart are fundamental for capital mobility and the ruling regime's structural stability or change.
KW - Indonesia
KW - New Order
KW - delegitimization
KW - political power
KW - subversive role of rumours
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84993808222&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/17480485020640020501
DO - 10.1177/17480485020640020501
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84993808222
VL - 64
SP - 157
EP - 181
JO - Gazette
JF - Gazette
SN - 0016-5492
IS - 2
ER -