Search for Common Ground Indonesia
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Consultancy Service on the Workshop with Media Editors
Search for Common Ground (Search) Indonesia invites applications from individual consultants/firms/research organizations to prepare and organize a Workshop with Editors of National Leading Media on the Countering of the widespread prejudice and hate media contents directed towards religious and ethnic minorities.
The workshop aims to promote non-inflammatory and non-exclusionary media contents at mainstream media towards religious and ethnic minorities.
The Organization
Search for Common Ground (Search) is an international peacebuilding organization that promotes the peaceful resolution of conflicts. Search's mission is to transform how individuals, organizations, and governments deal with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions. Search seeks to help conflicting parties understand their differences and act on their commonalities. Search implements projects from 56 offices in 35 countries, including in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
Search has been working in Indonesia since 2002 and is implementing programs in conflict transformation, peacebuilding, prison reform, conflict-sensitive journalism, electoral participation, and initiatives with youth, media, government agencies, informal religious leaders, and women's groups across the country.
Background
The Indonesian public is particularly prone to provocation when it comes to issues of religion and ethnicity both offline and online. Online, the lack of digital literacy or ability to critically evaluate content on social media results in difficulties identifying factual information from false and inflammatory content. The Digital Civility Index (DCI) Report published by Microsoft in 2020 ranked Indonesia 29th of the 32 countries analyzed, meaning that Indonesian internet users are among the most exposed to risks in online interactions, such as trolling, mean behavior or harassment.
The use of social media to spread negative narratives and hate speech directed towards religious minority groups was also prominent concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. Mixing the conspiracy theories with misinformation/disinformation, the narratives accused the religious and ethnic minority groups to have been responsible with the pandemic in Indonesia. In addition to the widespread prejudice and hate speech directed towards religious and ethnic minorities through online media, there is notable under-representation of religious and ethnic minority groups in Indonesian mainstream media.
Meanwhile, the concentration of media ownership and the active involvement of media owners in the Indonesian political sphere has led to increasing political partisanship of media. This has led to the involvement of the media in persecution of religious minorities or in favorable with the intolerant narratives being promoted by intolerant groups.
Considering the critical role that media plays in affecting public perception on religious and ethnic minorities and their rights, Search will conduct a workshop with editors of the mainstream media outlets on the promotion of non-inflammatory and non-exclusionary media content. Editors are particularly influential media actors as their editorial choices on how stories are framed have the potential to exacerbate existing tension or constructive situation stories in line with respect to freedom of religion and belief.
The workshop will focus on discussing current editorial policies and practices of the media houses, raise awareness on the need for human-rights perspective in journalism, and strategies that can be employed to achieve non-inflammatory and non-exclusionary media contents at mainstream media.
Objective of the Workshop:
To map out the current situation of narratives and actors both at offline and online media that come out with inflammatory contents against religious and ethnic minorities groups in Indonesia.
To discuss current editorial policies and practices of the media houses on intolerant narratives against religious or ethnic minority groups
To raise awareness on the need for human-rights perspective in journalism, and strategies that can be employed to achieve non-inflammatory and non-exclusionary media contents at mainstream media.
Criteria of the Participants:
To make the workshop able to generate intended results, qualified participants are the key factors. For this purpose, the workshop participants shall meet at least the following criteria:
Representing media organizations that have a history of advocating FoRB or have demonstrated a general lack of FoRB sensitivity.
Serving as member of the editing team in the media.
The media is among the top 15 national level in highest number of readers/viewers or is a prominent local media house in the areas of DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, or Yogyakarta.
Scope of Work
The scope of work of the consultant(s) will include the following:
Designing, preparing, organizing and reporting of a one-day media editors workshop that will effectively generate Search intended results.
The workshop is anticipated to take place at a strategic location in Jakarta area.
Key Duties of Consultant(s)
To propose design of the workshop that will effectively generate Search intended results.
To propose participants that meet criteria set by Search.
To ensure participation of those selected participants.
To organize the workshop that meets Search quality standard of the workshop implementation.
To submit activity report that comply with Search practice and regulation.
Deliverables
Within the consultancy period, the consultant(s) is expected to complete the above-mentioned scope of work. The deliverables are as follows:
Inception report and work plan completed within the first 7 days. The inception report should have a detailed plan of the workshop implementation such as the design, location, schedule/rundown, participants, facilitators/moderators, equipment, and steps on processes needed to complete the assignments. The inception report and the list of preliminary documents need formal approval from the Search Indonesia team before starting the process to implement the assignments.
Draft of TOR that include the proposed participants and facilitators/moderators that meet Search criteria and their contact details. The TOR is subject to the Search Indonesia team's review. The TOR should be submitted in an MS Word document.
Report of the Implementation of the workshop. The Report will include narrative on overall processes that take place during the workshop, participants that attend and key results and recommendation that are generated from the workshop. The review and feedback may take multiple rounds depending on the quality of the report. No final payment will be made until the report is formally approved by the Search team. One copy of the final report should be submitted in MS Word format.
The consultancy period will be between March 13 to April 20, 2023. The applicant is expected to propose the minimum number of person-days required for the assignment. The consultant(s) preferably should be based in Jakarta.
SN | Activities | Deadline |
1 | Application Deadline | March 8, 2023 |
2 | Signing of the contract and inception report approval | March 15, 2023 |
3 | TOR approval | March 17, 2023 |
4 | Report of the Implementation | April 14, 2023 |
Remuneration
The schedule of payment of the consultancy fee is as follows:
20% will be paid upon approval of Inception Report.
60% will be paid upon approval of TOR of the workshop.
20% will be paid upon approval of the Report of the workshop implementation.
No Payment will be made unless the report is approved by the Search Indonesia team.
Supervision of the Consultant(s)
The consultant(s) will work under the Program Manager in collaboration with program staff of Search Indonesia.
Qualifications
Strong networks with national leading media editors;
Proven track record of executive workshop implementation
Strong writing a high quality fully edited report in English and Bahasa.
Application Process
Interested candidates should send their CV and/ or organization portfolio, technical proposal, financial proposal (detailing the cost calculations), to phandayani@sfcg.org by March 8, 2023. If you have any questions, please contact Gracia Respati, Project Coordinator, through grespati@sfcg.org. Only short-listed offerors are contacted for further selection process. Telephone calls and office visit for inquiries are not entertained. They could be the basis for disqualification.
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