Study On The Ethic Code Of Indonesia Journalists

Today the mass media has become one of the necessities that can not be separated from the human routines. Every moment the mass media has provided knowledge and information to the public. Increasing needs of information from public, create the mass media institutions in Indonesia developed rapidly. Each media competing to present information that attracts interest from the public. Fierce competition among institutions of mass media today sometimes make them did not work based on the several regulations that is written on the role and function of the journalist in Indonesia. Disobedience to the rules by the journalist agency workers can be seen from the violation of journalistic ethics.Journalism Code of Ethics is a set of rules in form of the Code of Conduct to which journalists practitioners are tied. It contains the principles of right and wrong and contains moral values.The purpose of this study is to determine if the Serambi Indonesia journalists understand the journalistic ethics code based on the knowledge they have, and the practical application of journalistic ethics in journalism activities among journalists of Serambi Indonesia.The results indicate that the Serambi Indonesia journalists understand and have the same understanding of journalistic ethics code as a rule of law in carrying out the task of journalism. Serambi Indonesia journalists use ethical ways when performing job as a journalist. The ethical ways include among other things: Introducing themselves as a reporter with showing a press card. At the stage of writing the news should apply the principle of covering both sides. Performing journalist duty with the independent attitude. Serambi Indonesia’s journalists gave the initials for the victim and young perpetrators of crimes. At the publication stage Serambi Indonesia is willing to give the answer rights to the reader or speaker who feel disadvantaged.