'JP' journalist goes to Harvard
'JP' journalist goes to Harvard
JAKARTA: The Jakarta Post's deputy chief editor, Endy M.
Bayuni, will be going to Harvard University this coming academic
year for the prestigious Nieman Fellowship program.
The Nieman Foundation announced in Boston, Massachusetts, on
Tuesday that Endy would be among 25 journalists who will take
part in the 10-month program starting in August. Thirteen
Americans and 12 non-Americans have been picked for the 66th
class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard.
Endy is the fifth Indonesian journalist to have been accepted
to the program.
Earlier Nieman fellows from Indonesia were Sabam Siagian
(Class of 1979), who was then with Sinar Harapan daily newspaper
and later became The Jakarta Post's first chief editor in 1983,
and between 1991 and 1995 served as Indonesia's ambassador to
Australia; Goenawan Mohamad (Class of 1990), founding member of
Tempo magazine and now its senior editor; Ratih Hardjono (Class
of 1994), then with Kompas daily and a spokeswoman for president
Abdurrahman Wahid in 1999/2000; and Andreas Harsono (Class of
2000), then correspondent/stringer for a number of foreign
publications, and now editor of Pantau, the journalist's watchdog
magazine/website.
Endy's fellowship will be supported by the Ford Foundation,
the Open Society Institute and the Asia Foundation.
The fellowships are awarded to working journalists for an
academic year of study in any department in the university. Endy
has picked the war against terrorism and its impact on civil
liberties as his area of study.
More than 1,000 U.S. and international journalists have
studied at Harvard as Nieman Fellows. Established in 1938, the
program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the
world.
This year's other foreign participants come from Tanzania,
Iran, Russia, China, Columbia, South Africa, Scotland, Finland,
Uruguay, Nigeria and Canada. Among the American fellows is Indira
Lakshmanan, who as the Hong-Kong based Asian correspondent for
the Boston Globe is a regular visitor to Indonesia. --JP