


Three main themes structure the study: representing tradition, localizing persuasion and mediating the local. Pria peranakan ini dilahirkan dengan nama Kho Ping Hoo pada tanggal 17 Agustus 1926 di Sragen, yaitu sebuah kota di kaki gunung Lawu, kira-kira 30 km di sebelah timur kota Solo. These issues have been put into the framework of discursive practices about local, national and global cultures in the electronic audiovisual media in Indonesia. Performance in Javanese has been used by the Indonesian television industry to achieve various purposes: to entertain and inform its audiences, to represent the local/the regional, to preserve and nurture the traditional and to build national culture, for persuasive (commercial or propaganda) aims, as a counter-voice of diversification towards global or Jakartan influences, and to express multiculturalism.

Central is the question of how people make use of national, regional, local, public and private television in Indonesia – each in their own way and with their own goals – to represent the local and, in particular, how they construct images of Javaneseness through the production and dissemination of performance. Producing the local: Javanese performance on Indonesian television explores how television represents Javaneseness, as a factor designed to catch and keep the attention of its putative audiences. Producing the local: Javanese performance on Indonesian television Doctoral Thesis
