Tough Times Determines
Communication
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there are
numerous number of news or information being
spread using various digital media platform.
In fact, the information comes from unreliable
sources that causes confusion in the community. The
responsibility of the media practitioner to constrain
the dissemination of unreliable information becomes
important in this tough times.
For almost every day, we get an information on
something that is relate to the COVID-19 from various
sources. This cause the unnecessary information to control
the community’s mind. At this state, media practitioner
should play their roles in making the community being
inform and aware of the current situation that hit almost
every country in the world.
The journalist who act as a front liner on serving
the truth of an information or news needs to checks
the credibility of the sources before disseminates the
information to the publics. Nevertheless, journalist
might facing many challenges in terms of gathering the
information because of the constraints in this COVID-19
pandemic.
At this phase, the communication is seems to be
important to make public understands on the real situation.
Through many channel, the media practitioner regularly
updating the current state of COVID-19 to give an
awareness to the public.
The process of communication during this pandemic
diverse from the normal state. It is because communication
cannot be widely spread as usual because of the constraint
for having face-to-face meeting, classes, works and other
activities that requires a contact. Thus, the communication
during COVID-19 pandemic had to go through online
phase in other words in virtual world.
I believe during this tough times, it is quiet hard for
almost of the people in the world to communicate among
themselves. However, with the advancement of technology
these days, we are not left behind to communicate with
others through many different platform.
This 82th edition of SASARAN with the theme
“Keterbatasan Komunikasi di kala COVID-19” being
choosen this time to understand more deeply on the crisis
of communication happens during this pandemic time.
The reason of choosing this theme also to discover the
communication process take place during COVID-19
pandemic. It can be seen that there is a significance impact
of the communication process in the community.
In the meantime, this time of SASARAN edition
consists of seven section which covering the current
issues happen in the world that are related to COVID-19
pandemic. There are many crisis of communication and
the issues in the mainstream media being discussed in this
magazine.
Nur Syuhada Ramli
DEPUTY CHIEF EDITOR
NUR SYUHADA RAMLI
SASARAN EDISI 82 9