Journal

JURNAL is a section featuring akumassa articles written by members of communities participating in akumassa workshops, alongside contributing writers. The section addresses broadly framed themes drawn from everyday life, focusing on small-scale narratives, specific locations, and mass events as experienced, observed, and reflected upon by the authors themselves.

The place names used as labels for each article do not always refer to the location as the subject of the narrative or as the site where a particular event occurred. In certain cases, these location labels instead indicate where the article was written, while the content itself may address issues of a more general nature that are not directly related to the location in question.

The writings published in JURNAL employ the approaches and forms of citizen journalism, placing personal and collective experience at the center of knowledge production. By foregrounding first-hand perspectives and the authors’ proximity to the contexts they document, the section articulates a mode of storytelling distinct from that of mainstream journalism.

JURNAL section on akumassa.id creates space for citizens’ voices to narrate their own realities, contributing alternative readings of social life while expanding the public discourse through perspectives that are plural, grounded, and deeply contextual.