This study examines the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) media narratives and digital literacy levels in Indonesia, focusing on their combined impact on information resilience and misinformation vulnerability. Through a mixed-methods approach involving content analysis of five major Indonesian media outlets (2022–2024), a survey of 384 respondents across South Sulawesi, and in-depth interviews with 15 media professionals, this research reveals significant gaps between AI media coverage and public understanding. The findings indicate that while 76% of Indonesian media coverage presents AI as a technological solution to misinformation, only 32% of the surveyed population demonstrates adequate digital literacy skills to evaluate AI-generated content critically. The study identifies three distinct patterns of AI media framing: technological optimism (47%), cautionary realism (33%), and dystopian skepticism (20%). These findings contribute to understanding how media narratives about emerging technologies influence public digital literacy and information resilience, particularly in developing digital economies where technological adoption often outpaces digital education initiatives.

This study examines how environmental journalists in Eastern Indonesia develop innovative digital strategies to counter corporate disinformation while maintaining credible climate reporting amid systematic censorship and algorithmic suppression. Through ethnographic fieldwork with 34 environmental journalists in Makassar and surrounding maritime communities (2023–2024), combined with digital platform analysis and content verification tracking, this investigation reveals how local journalists create “networked verification archipelagos” that mirror traditional maritime communication systems to combat extractive industry misinformation. Our analysis revealed three primary counter-disinformation mechanisms: (1) community-based verification networks that successfully identified 87% of corporate misinformation within 48 h through traditional knowledge integration; (2) algorithmic resistance strategies that increased environmental content visibility by 156% through cultural framing techniques; and (3) cross-platform coordination that maintained journalist communication networks despite 34 documented censorship campaigns. These networks enable accurate environmental reporting despite corporate-sponsored disinformation campaigns, government restrictions on mining coverage, and social media algorithms that amplify climate denial content. The research demonstrates how journalists in the Global South develop decolonial approaches to counter-disinformation that challenge Western platform-centric fact-checking models while maintaining journalistic credibility and community accountability. These findings contribute to understanding power dynamics and coloniality in disinformation studies while offering insights for media literacy and democratic integrity in climate-vulnerable regions.

Objectives: This research aims to analyze the influence of media literacy levels on religious moderation among millennial generations in Bulukumba Regency. This study classified as causal associative research based on the independent variable of media literacy (X) on the dependent variable of religious moderation (Y). Methods: The population and sample in the study were millennials who have participated in media literacy training and socialization of religious moderation. The technique is carried out using multi-stage cluster random sampling collected through questionnaires, interviews, and observations and used the Krejcie table. Data analysis used multivariate regression statistical analysis through SPSS version 26.0. Results: The research results: Partially, the influence of media literacy skills affects 44.9% of the attitude of religious moderation among millennial generations. Meanwhile, multivariately, each variable contributes different influence such as technical skills by 37.5%, critical skills by 19.9%, and communicative skills by 42.53%. Conclusions: Implications from the findings research were: 1) Reformulating and implementing communication strategies to enhance the attitude of religious moderation, following the principles of Appropriate Communication for the Development of Communities and participatory management based on the new communication and development paradigm; 2) Continuous media literacy socialization activities to be conducted by developing more systematic socialization strategies; 3) Reforming the communication process that considers the theory by (De Fleur, 1966) regarding the differences in communication effects, namely " the individual differences theory" and "the social category theory."

This research aims to analyze the impact of learning communication on the level of understanding among participants in healthcare management training within the primary healthcare center field and to compare the differing impacts of two distinct learning models. The method employed is quantitative research utilizing a Quasi-Experimental design with a Non-Equivalent Control Group model. Two training class groups formed one receiving treatment with the Blended Learning model for Primary Health Care Center Management training, and the other without treatment through Face-to-Face Primary Health Care Center Management training. Data was collected through pre and post-response questionnaires, and statistical analysis was conducted using frequency statistics, descriptions, paired t-tests, and independent t-tests. The results indicate a significant impact of learning communication effectiveness on the level of understanding among participants in both the Blended Learning and Face-to-Face models, with no significant difference observed in the impact of learning communication effectiveness on understanding level between the two class models. These findings provide a foundation for policies and strategies in organizing Primary Health Care Center Management training at Healthcare Training Institutions and can serve as branding in building credibility regarding the implementation of effective and quality training programs.

This study examines how geographic constraints constitutively shape digital journalism practices and community access to information in Indonesia's archipelagic landscape. Despite growing scholarly interest in media geography and digital journalism, existing theoretical frameworks inadequately address how archipelagic geographies characterized by physical island fragmentation, extreme cultural diversity, and infrastructure inequality fundamentally alter journalism practices beyond simple constraint models. Through 18-month ethnographic research (March 2023–August 2024) across six eastern Indonesian provinces, this study employed systematic multi-method qualitative research: semi-structured interviews with 45 journalists strategically sampled across diverse island contexts (provincial capitals, secondary cities, small towns, and remote islands), extended participant observation in island communities (18 research sites), and comprehensive infrastructure analysis mapping transportation networks and technological connectivity patterns. The purposive sampling strategy ensured maximum variation across geographic isolation levels, infrastructural development, and cultural configurations, enabling robust comparative analysis of archipelagic journalism mechanisms. This research introduces “archipelagic journalism” as a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding how geographic fragmentation shapes news production, distribution, and consumption. Findings demonstrate that successful journalism in archipelagic contexts requires hybrid distribution networks integrating digital platforms with traditional transportation routes, community correspondent systems that bridge formal and informal information flows, culturally adaptive content strategies that respect linguistic diversity, and a hyperlocal focus that prioritizes community relationships over market scale. The study makes three distinct contributions: theoretically, it extends media geography scholarship by demonstrating geography as constitutive rather than merely constraining journalism practice; empirically, it provides the first systematic documentation of adaptive strategies across diverse Indonesian island communities; practically, it offers transferable frameworks for media development in geographically fragmented contexts globally, with significant implications for journalism studies, media policy, democratic communication theory, and climate change adaptation as geographic inequality intensifies.

Komunikasi Pendidikan memiliki peran penting dalam membentuk Etika dan Karakter Anak Usia dini yang islami. Melalui komunikasi pendidikan yang berkualitas, Anak-anak lebih mudah memahami dan mengerti pesan-pesan yang disampaikan oleh Pembinanya sehingga memudahkan proses pembentukan etika dan karakter Anak. Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan komunikasi pendidikan Islam yang efektif dalam menanamkan nilai-nilai etika dan karakter pada anak usia dini di Taman Pendidikan Al-Quran (TPA) Kota Makassar. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa komunikasi pendidikan Islam yang efektif dalam menanamkan nilai-nilai etika dan karakter Anak Usia Dini di Taman Pendidikan Al-Qur’an (TPA) di Kota Makassar berdasarkan Al-Qur’an yaitu Pembina berinteraksi kepada Santri dengan Melakukan salam sebelum berkomunikasi untuk menciptakan kedekatan, Menggunakan ucapan yang sopan dan lemah lembut, Ramah dan Terbuka dalam berkomunikasi, Menyesuaikan pembicaraan dan bahasa dengan memberikan contoh yang baik, Berdiskusi tentang sikap jujur yang harus dilakukan baik itu di Taman Pendidikan Al-Qur’an, di Rumah maupun di lingkungan sosial dan Memberikan penjelasan tentang pesan atau informasi akurat/benar yang mudah dimengerti berhasil mereka terapkan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari baik di Taman Pendidikan Al-Qur’an, rumah maupun di lingkungan sosial.