Last modified: 2023-06-09
Abstract
Broadcasting in Indonesia has started entering the free-to-air terrestrial digital broadcasting era. Its impact of the digital era is giving positive and negative changes to economic, social, cultural and values in society. The digital broadcasting system is capable to radiate signal pictures and sound with better quality as well as the crystal-clear view on the Television screen compared to analogue broadcast. Indonesian Commission Broadcasting in its function of supervision must adapt to the development of this digital broadcasting system. The fact is, the regulation law applied by the Indonesian Commission Broadcasting is still using the Law of Number 32 of 2002 concerning the Analog Broadcasting as reference. Thus, the purpose of this research article is to examine the re-existence of strengthening the role of the Commission Indonesian Broadcasting in the Digital Age of broadcasting regulation. The research method used in the paper is the discourse analysis of juridical norms. The result found that the outlines of broadcast digitization have elicited various positive nor negative impacts, the urgency in strengthening the existence of Indonesia Commission Broadcasting Indonesian Broadcasting through the Juridical Normative analysis in connection with Digital Broadcasting Supervision based according to Law 32 of 2002 Law of Number 32 of 2002 along with the Broadcasting Laws draft revision. Broadcasting digitalization must be oriented toward cultural preservation and Indonesian society. It also must be formulated to push digital broadcasting in a way to prevent the negative impact of digital content for the sake of public interest.