Metadata Your name / major / year: Mohammad Hafiyyandi (Hafi) / ITP / Year 1 Project working title: The First Indonesian Multi-Millionaire in China Tweet-length project description: An experiment examining how majority Moslem-Indonesians project their hopes & insecurities toward their own ethnic group and the Chinese-Indonesian ethnic. Paragraph-length project description: The experiment starts with disseminating a fake feel-good story about “the first Indonesian Multi-Millio

News Format A little background on Indonesia's media landscape: while Facebook is the most popular platform used in Indonesia, the most popular online activity is actually mobile-messaging. Platforms such as WhatsApp and LINE are widely used, in both personal and professional settings. Probably because of the communal aspect of a group/private channel, Indonesians love to share "news" or (often religious) anecdotes via mobile messenger. This behaviour is so common LINE even s

For this assignment, I already knew what "basic reality" that I want to work on, but I had a hard time trying to define it. What is this reality, exactly? Why is this a reality for some people, and why is it not for others? Why is it significant to me? So here's an attempt to break down the basic reality I deeply care about: /* Warning: it is unnecessarily long, please scroll to the TLDR version for the summarised version*/ Indonesia's Muslim Majority Under "Threat" Indonesia

So, before I started on the assignment I read up more on Precession of Simulacra. The concept was not intuitive for me initially, so I had to go through several references to try to understand it. Quoting from wikipedia, a simulacrum is when a symbol or representation "...has no relationship to any reality whatsoever." It exists in a post-modern society (i.e. us, now), where signs or symbols: Do not represent reality Do not even need to pretend that it represents reality. In