The practice of film censorship has been in Indonesia since the Dutch East Indies era, and
since then has always been the battleground for film stakeholders. The different values
and norms among the film stakeholders generate multiple views on film censorship. This
research tried to look on the discursive contestation of the film censorship in Indonesia
through the perspective of the sociology of communication. This research used the
constructivist paradigm and the case study method. Data collection was done through
collecting media reports on four films that stumbled upon the censorship issue after the
enactment of the 2009 Film Law, which are The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence,
Naura & Genk Juara and Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku, as well as interviewing four different
film stakeholders, which are a manager of an alternative cinema, a representative of the
Indonesian Film Board (BPI) who used to be involved in the Indonesian Film Society
(MFI), and a film director-actor. The research results indicated that disharmony among the
film stakeholders happened as they value different values and norms, which resulted in the
emergence of the discursive contestation of film censorship.
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