WATCHING SELF FROM A DISTANCE: THE WHYS OF WATCHING SINETRONS AMONG MALAY-JAVANESE WOMEN IN MALAYSIA
Journal Title: INFORMASI - Year 2017, Vol 47, Issue 2
Abstract
This article discusses the cognitive reasoning behind the love for watching sinetronexpressed by Malay-Javanese women in Malaysia. The Malay-Javanese women in this context refer to female members of Javanese communities within Malay society. Malaysians of Javanese descent are constitutionally considered as ethnic component of Malay racial group due to similarities in cultural customs and religion of Islam. However, they retain some semblance of Javanese cultural heritage including speaking the language in their everyday life. In the context of Malay-Javanese women under this study, it is identified that sinetrons have become the main source of their cultural consumption from television. Sinetrons aresoap opera-like television productions from Indonesia—the country where their ancestors were originated from. The results from ethnographic fieldwork in Kampung Papitusulem of Selangor show how these women incline to watching sinetrons to a certain level, primarily due to three main reasons. First, the dialogues in the television productions fit their language preference. Second, they can find representations of their cultural identity in the images of sinetrons. Third, they watch the imported television program from Indonesia simply for the identification ofsense of belonging. It is argued that viewing sinetrons for these women represents watching self from a distance, which is central discussion in cultural and media studies.
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Lily El Ferawati Rofil
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- EP ID EP248886
- DOI 10.21831/informasi.v47i2.17377
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