Pramana Pramana
Biographic Data
| ID | 5155158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pramana Pramana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pramana |
| FAMILY NAME | Pramana |
| SIGNATURE | PRAMANA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sebelas Maret University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7254-6908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond AI adoption: Rethinking rural development from Indonesia
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly presented as crucial for rural development, as it offers opportunities for market access, business growth, and digital inclusion. Using reflections from three Indonesian communities associated with palm sugar production, woodcarving, and copper craftsmanship, this study examines the limits of technology-centred development. It argues that the most consequential constraints are not solely technological,…
Beyond Cultural Representation: A Commentary on Global South Media Theory from the Indonesian Digital Public Sphere
This commentary responds to Tomaselli and Xiao’s (2023) article “Cultural Studies in Interhemispherical Perspective: China, Africa, Asia and Australasia” by extending its South–North and East–West conversation to the Indonesian digital public sphere. While their article valuably reopens the question of how cultural studies travels across unequal intellectual geographies, I argue that Global South media theory must move beyond the language of cult…
Trafficked to Scam: From Communicative Entrapment to Evidentiary Blind Spots in Indonesia’s Response to Forced Criminality
Einstein had a blackboard. We have a hundred assistants. Where are the great works?
My Grandmother Was Not in the Textbook
This poem reflects on the quiet forms of knowledge that often remain absent from formal schooling. Centered on the figure of a grandmother, it uses domestic and sensory images—measuring rice, sorting beans, reading the sky, and distributing food—to contrast standardized textbook knowledge with intergenerational learning. The poem asks whose knowledge becomes visible within official curricula and how children learn dignity, care, survival, and cul…
Crisis, voice, reputation: Organisational communication and university response to sexual violence cases
This study examined how organisational communication constitutes crisis response, voice, and legitimacy in university sexual violence cases in Indonesia, a socio-political context shaped by strong cultural hierarchies, legal–bureaucratic governance and an ongoing transition from a culture of silence towards digitally mediated transparency. Drawing on a qualitative multiple-case study of Universitas Indonesia (UI), Universitas Riau (UNRI), and Uni…
The classroom that listens to the world
This poetic reflection explores the emotional and moral tensions experienced in a world increasingly shaped by global conflicts and collective uncertainty. Through the imagery of a classroom observing a troubled world, the poem invites readers to contemplate how education can become a space for nurturing empathy, critical reflection, and the ethical imagination necessary for sustaining peace. Rather than portraying peace merely as the absence of …
Building social harmony in difference: Communication practices in Indonesia’s Eid al-Fitr determination
This practice note examines how differences in determining Eid al-Fitr between Muhammadiyah and the Indonesian government are communicated and negotiated in everyday Indonesian life. Using a reflective qualitative approach, it draws on literature-based analysis, public discourse observation, and contextual interpretation of recent incidents involving restrictions on Muhammadiyah Eid prayers. The note argues that religious difference does not auto…
The Cloud Drinks from Our Well
Gender responsive institutional governance for forest and land conservation in the Upper Bengawan Solo Watershed, Indonesia
Gender-responsive institutional governance is essential for strengthening forest and land conservation in ecologically vulnerable watershed areas. This article examines institutional models for forest and land conservation in the Upper Bengawan Solo Watershed, Indonesia, where erosion, sedimentation, flooding, drought, and declining environmental carrying capacity remain persistent challenges. Using a qualitative participatory approach inspired b…
Green Light
They say the future is green.Wind turns the blades of tomorrow,sunlight floods the silent panels,and cities glow with promisesof cleaner air.But somewhere far from the glass towers,the earth opens
The emotional life of chemotherapy
BACKGROUND: Cancer treatment is often described in biomedical language, while its emotional textures remain less visible. Experiences such as waiting, bodily changes, fatigue, uncertainty, and the quiet grief of chemotherapy shape how illness is lived beyond clinical procedures. PURPOSE: This manuscript offers a poetic reflection on the emotional life of chemotherapy, focusing on how art may help name, hold, and witness what treatment cannot full…
Silent images, growing minds
BACKGROUND: This manuscript reflects on the role of visual art as a gentle and meaningful pathway for supporting the cognitive development of children on the autism spectrum. Rather than approaching autism through deficit based assumptions, it foregrounds the potential of visual engagement as a supportive mode of learning. PURPOSE: The manuscript aims to explore how images, patterns, shapes, and repeated visual interaction may create conditions f…
When art remembers what the mind lets go
BACKGROUND: Ageing, memory loss, and dementia are often framed through decline, dependency, and clinical deficit. Within arts and health scholarship, however, growing attention has been given to the role of artistic practice in sustaining dignity, identity, and relational connection in later life. PURPOSE: This manuscript presents a poetic reflection on ageing, fading memory, and the enduring role of art in preserving personhood, recognition, and…
The invisible fatigue of those who heal
BACKGROUND: This poem reflects on the often-unseen emotional and moral burden carried by healthcare workers, caregivers, and others whose daily labour is devoted to easing the suffering of others. It approaches care not only as professional responsibility, but also as a deeply human practice shaped by tenderness, endurance, and vulnerability. AIMS: The piece seeks to make visible the inner costs of caregiving, to rehumanise those who are often re…
Selling fish, negotiating power: Women’s communication in gendered work relations in Indonesia
This study examines the communication of women fishmongers in gendered work relations in Lewoleba, Indonesia. Using a qualitative single case study, the research explores how women negotiate unequal relations with husbands, fellow fishmongers, and capital owners within the everyday realities of small-scale fisheries. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and observation involving women fishmongers, husbands, and capital owners in two fi…
Negotiating collaboration in community-based tourism development: A study from Mangunan, Indonesia
This study examines inter-stakeholder communication in community-based tourism development in Mangunan, Indonesia. Using a qualitative approach grounded in ethnomethodology, the study analyzes recorded interactions among government, academic stakeholder, and community stakeholders involved in tourism development. The analysis focuses on how collaboration is communicatively produced through everyday negotiation of interests, roles, and priorities.…
Communicative resilience in adoptive families: Marital communication patterns in the process of child adoption
Where Pain Becomes Language
This poetry explores the role of artistic expression, particularly poetry, as a reflective space for emotional healing in times of social uncertainty and collective crisis. Across many contemporary contexts marked by anxiety, loss, and psychological fatigue, individuals often experience emotional burdens that remain difficult to articulate through conventional discourse. Through a contemplative poetic narrative, the work illustrates how language …
Communicating Progressive Islam: Value-based public relations and the communicative construction of organizational identity in Muhammadiyah
This dissertation examines how public relations functions operate within Muhammadiyah and how communication practices contribute to constructing and sustaining organizational identity grounded in the values of Islam Berkemajuan (Progressive Islam). While public relations scholarship has largely developed within corporate and governmental contexts, relatively limited attention has been given to communication practices within socio religious organi…
Ritual interaction and cultural identity negotiation in building social integration within a multiethnic and interfaith society
Indonesia’s cultural diversity presents both social potential and challenges for integration, particularly in multiethnic and multireligious settings. This study examines the Memarek tradition in North Lombok as a culturally embedded medium of intercultural communication that facilitates identity negotiation and social integration. Employing a qualitative phenomenological approach, data were collected through participant observation, in-depth int…
Communicating the city from below: Urban creative subculture (Skena) communities and participatory city branding in Bandung, Indonesia
Urban branding scholarship has increasingly emphasized participatory approaches grounded in everyday cultural practices rather than top-down promotional strategies. This study examines how urban creative subculture (Skena) communities contribute to the construction of participatory city branding narratives in Bandung, Indonesia. Drawing on narrative branding and participatory city branding perspectives, the study adopts a constructivist paradigm …
A phenomenological field study of Expectancy Violation in WhatsApp-mediated interpersonal communication
This dissertation examines how Expectancy Violation Theory (EVT) operates within WhatsApp-mediated interpersonal communication through a phenomenological field study of Indonesian youth. Although EVT was originally developed in face-to-face contexts, contemporary interpersonal interaction increasingly occurs in digitally mediated environments where nonverbal cues are transformed into symbolic and technological indicators. Data were collected thro…
Communication management in the prevention and handling of sexual violence in higher education
Sexual violence in higher education poses a serious threat to campus safety, institutional integrity, and public trust. Although national regulations in Indonesia mandate preventive and handling mechanisms, their effectiveness largely depends on how communication is managed within universities. This study examines communication management in the prevention, handling, and crisis response to sexual violence in higher education institutions. Using a…
Organizational communication performances in Islamic higher education institutions: A case of Muhammadiyah–Aisyiyah Universities in Indonesia
This dissertation explores organizational communication culture in Muhammadiyah–Aisyiyah Higher Education Institutions (PTMA) in Indonesia and its role in shaping organizational performance. Adopting an interpretive communication perspective, the study views organizational culture as a dynamic process constructed through everyday communicative practices rather than as a fixed structure. The analysis is guided by Pacanowsky’s organizational commun…
Information management and diabetes mellitus risk in family health communication
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is an increasing health problem in Indonesia, particularly in families with a history of the disease where genetic risk interacts with lifestyle and communication practices. This study explores how risk perception, information avoidance, and family communication patterns shape health decision making among families in Surakarta City and Karanganyar Regency. Using a qualitative descriptive case study design, data were collect…
AI and communication research: Reassessing theory and methodology in the age of automation
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) marks a fundamental shift in communication science, positioning AI not only as a research tool but also as an active entity in the communication process. This paper argues for a paradigm shift from conventional human to human interaction toward beyond human communication, where AI functions as communicator, medium, and message producer. Such transformation requires re-examining communication t…
Beyond AI adoption: Rethinking rural development from Indonesia
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly presented as crucial for rural development, as it offers opportunities for market access, business growth, and digital inclusion. Using reflections from three Indonesian communities associated with palm sugar production, woodcarving, and copper craftsmanship, this study examines the limits of technology-centred development. It argues that the most consequential constraints are not solely technological,…
Beyond Cultural Representation: A Commentary on Global South Media Theory from the Indonesian Digital Public Sphere
This commentary responds to Tomaselli and Xiao’s (2023) article “Cultural Studies in Interhemispherical Perspective: China, Africa, Asia and Australasia” by extending its South–North and East–West conversation to the Indonesian digital public sphere. While their article valuably reopens the question of how cultural studies travels across unequal intellectual geographies, I argue that Global South media theory must move beyond the language of cult…
Trafficked to Scam: From Communicative Entrapment to Evidentiary Blind Spots in Indonesia’s Response to Forced Criminality
Einstein had a blackboard. We have a hundred assistants. Where are the great works?
My Grandmother Was Not in the Textbook
This poem reflects on the quiet forms of knowledge that often remain absent from formal schooling. Centered on the figure of a grandmother, it uses domestic and sensory images—measuring rice, sorting beans, reading the sky, and distributing food—to contrast standardized textbook knowledge with intergenerational learning. The poem asks whose knowledge becomes visible within official curricula and how children learn dignity, care, survival, and cul…
Crisis, voice, reputation: Organisational communication and university response to sexual violence cases
This study examined how organisational communication constitutes crisis response, voice, and legitimacy in university sexual violence cases in Indonesia, a socio-political context shaped by strong cultural hierarchies, legal–bureaucratic governance and an ongoing transition from a culture of silence towards digitally mediated transparency. Drawing on a qualitative multiple-case study of Universitas Indonesia (UI), Universitas Riau (UNRI), and Uni…
The classroom that listens to the world
This poetic reflection explores the emotional and moral tensions experienced in a world increasingly shaped by global conflicts and collective uncertainty. Through the imagery of a classroom observing a troubled world, the poem invites readers to contemplate how education can become a space for nurturing empathy, critical reflection, and the ethical imagination necessary for sustaining peace. Rather than portraying peace merely as the absence of …
Building social harmony in difference: Communication practices in Indonesia’s Eid al-Fitr determination
This practice note examines how differences in determining Eid al-Fitr between Muhammadiyah and the Indonesian government are communicated and negotiated in everyday Indonesian life. Using a reflective qualitative approach, it draws on literature-based analysis, public discourse observation, and contextual interpretation of recent incidents involving restrictions on Muhammadiyah Eid prayers. The note argues that religious difference does not auto…
The Cloud Drinks from Our Well
Gender responsive institutional governance for forest and land conservation in the Upper Bengawan Solo Watershed, Indonesia
Gender-responsive institutional governance is essential for strengthening forest and land conservation in ecologically vulnerable watershed areas. This article examines institutional models for forest and land conservation in the Upper Bengawan Solo Watershed, Indonesia, where erosion, sedimentation, flooding, drought, and declining environmental carrying capacity remain persistent challenges. Using a qualitative participatory approach inspired b…
Green Light
They say the future is green.Wind turns the blades of tomorrow,sunlight floods the silent panels,and cities glow with promisesof cleaner air.But somewhere far from the glass towers,the earth opens
The emotional life of chemotherapy
BACKGROUND: Cancer treatment is often described in biomedical language, while its emotional textures remain less visible. Experiences such as waiting, bodily changes, fatigue, uncertainty, and the quiet grief of chemotherapy shape how illness is lived beyond clinical procedures. PURPOSE: This manuscript offers a poetic reflection on the emotional life of chemotherapy, focusing on how art may help name, hold, and witness what treatment cannot full…
Silent images, growing minds
BACKGROUND: This manuscript reflects on the role of visual art as a gentle and meaningful pathway for supporting the cognitive development of children on the autism spectrum. Rather than approaching autism through deficit based assumptions, it foregrounds the potential of visual engagement as a supportive mode of learning. PURPOSE: The manuscript aims to explore how images, patterns, shapes, and repeated visual interaction may create conditions f…
When art remembers what the mind lets go
BACKGROUND: Ageing, memory loss, and dementia are often framed through decline, dependency, and clinical deficit. Within arts and health scholarship, however, growing attention has been given to the role of artistic practice in sustaining dignity, identity, and relational connection in later life. PURPOSE: This manuscript presents a poetic reflection on ageing, fading memory, and the enduring role of art in preserving personhood, recognition, and…
The invisible fatigue of those who heal
BACKGROUND: This poem reflects on the often-unseen emotional and moral burden carried by healthcare workers, caregivers, and others whose daily labour is devoted to easing the suffering of others. It approaches care not only as professional responsibility, but also as a deeply human practice shaped by tenderness, endurance, and vulnerability. AIMS: The piece seeks to make visible the inner costs of caregiving, to rehumanise those who are often re…
Selling fish, negotiating power: Women’s communication in gendered work relations in Indonesia
This study examines the communication of women fishmongers in gendered work relations in Lewoleba, Indonesia. Using a qualitative single case study, the research explores how women negotiate unequal relations with husbands, fellow fishmongers, and capital owners within the everyday realities of small-scale fisheries. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and observation involving women fishmongers, husbands, and capital owners in two fi…
Negotiating collaboration in community-based tourism development: A study from Mangunan, Indonesia
This study examines inter-stakeholder communication in community-based tourism development in Mangunan, Indonesia. Using a qualitative approach grounded in ethnomethodology, the study analyzes recorded interactions among government, academic stakeholder, and community stakeholders involved in tourism development. The analysis focuses on how collaboration is communicatively produced through everyday negotiation of interests, roles, and priorities.…
Communicative resilience in adoptive families: Marital communication patterns in the process of child adoption
Where Pain Becomes Language
This poetry explores the role of artistic expression, particularly poetry, as a reflective space for emotional healing in times of social uncertainty and collective crisis. Across many contemporary contexts marked by anxiety, loss, and psychological fatigue, individuals often experience emotional burdens that remain difficult to articulate through conventional discourse. Through a contemplative poetic narrative, the work illustrates how language …
Communicating Progressive Islam: Value-based public relations and the communicative construction of organizational identity in Muhammadiyah
This dissertation examines how public relations functions operate within Muhammadiyah and how communication practices contribute to constructing and sustaining organizational identity grounded in the values of Islam Berkemajuan (Progressive Islam). While public relations scholarship has largely developed within corporate and governmental contexts, relatively limited attention has been given to communication practices within socio religious organi…
Ritual interaction and cultural identity negotiation in building social integration within a multiethnic and interfaith society
Indonesia’s cultural diversity presents both social potential and challenges for integration, particularly in multiethnic and multireligious settings. This study examines the Memarek tradition in North Lombok as a culturally embedded medium of intercultural communication that facilitates identity negotiation and social integration. Employing a qualitative phenomenological approach, data were collected through participant observation, in-depth int…
Communicating the city from below: Urban creative subculture (Skena) communities and participatory city branding in Bandung, Indonesia
Urban branding scholarship has increasingly emphasized participatory approaches grounded in everyday cultural practices rather than top-down promotional strategies. This study examines how urban creative subculture (Skena) communities contribute to the construction of participatory city branding narratives in Bandung, Indonesia. Drawing on narrative branding and participatory city branding perspectives, the study adopts a constructivist paradigm …
A phenomenological field study of Expectancy Violation in WhatsApp-mediated interpersonal communication
This dissertation examines how Expectancy Violation Theory (EVT) operates within WhatsApp-mediated interpersonal communication through a phenomenological field study of Indonesian youth. Although EVT was originally developed in face-to-face contexts, contemporary interpersonal interaction increasingly occurs in digitally mediated environments where nonverbal cues are transformed into symbolic and technological indicators. Data were collected thro…
Communication management in the prevention and handling of sexual violence in higher education
Sexual violence in higher education poses a serious threat to campus safety, institutional integrity, and public trust. Although national regulations in Indonesia mandate preventive and handling mechanisms, their effectiveness largely depends on how communication is managed within universities. This study examines communication management in the prevention, handling, and crisis response to sexual violence in higher education institutions. Using a…
Negotiation (5 works) · Poetry (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · The arts (4 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (3 works) · Embodied cognition (3 works) · Indonesian (3 works) · Interpersonal communication (3 works) · Organizational communication (3 works) · Project commissioning (3 works)