THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF STREET CHILDREN ARE PACKED BY MEDIA IN INDONESIA

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to give an idea of how the mass media highlighted the group of
street children in Bandung and Jakarta as a portrait of the creative community with cultural
differences in their approach to life. The concept used is about cross-cultural communication
that collectivist cultures Indonesia and harmonization of different cultures in society in
everyday life. Data was collected by interviews, observations, literature equipped watch
video two news in TV and observe it for two months, data confirmation of something related
to video. Constructive research methods using mass media to analyze the two video display
by TV media. The results showed that there are different ways to live life as a new culture for
street children studied were not the same as the society. BeritaSatu TV as a medium of
Indonesia's pay TV network picked it up with a positive image to the exclusion of their bad
habits. The Conclusion is mass media became a tool of construction that ordinary people can
accept cultural differences and habits of life lived in a community of street children fill life
with his own world of different ways with the community at large. Although in principle the
fear of street children has to be rejected, but in general public in Indonesia, the street children
have achievements, self-reliance and contribute to the environment (UY)