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The Jakart Post Opinion and Editorial – February 23, 2008
Veronica Kusuma, Jakarta
A distinctive feature of modern power is its disciplinary control, its concern with what people have and have not done.This concern illustrates the primary function of modern disciplinary systems: to correct deviant behavior.
The goal is to reform, and means coming to live by society’s standards or norms. Discipline through imposing precise norms (“normalization” ) is what Michel Foucault calls “the deployment of force and the establishment of truth”.
Indonesia, under the New Order system was the perfect example of what Foucault stated. The New Order created mechanisms of ordered politics (Krishna Sen, 1992). And in this term, film occupies a significant position.
During New Order’s power, film had become a propaganda apparatus or a control device which, through its organization of content and production-distribu tion-exhibition process, attempted to create an obedient public.
The New Order era was signified by an extensive surveillance apparatus watchful for any subversive movement. Government regulations over film also structured production of norms based on normality.
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