Paper Title
The Media’s Participation in Developing Bandung City under RidwanKamil Administration
Abstract
This research is aimed to explain the role of media in effort todevelop bandungas one of the best city in Indonesia
under Ridwankamiladministration through qualitative method. Media is one ofway to spread the informations in
everyaspects.one of them is coming from government aspect. The participation of media caused both positive and negative
impacts. The positive impact is media become a tool to socialize government’s policies to society and the negative impact is
media could becontrolled by the political eliteso it could influence the neutrality of media. The role of media could be seen
in Indonesia especially in Bandung where mediaused
to socialize the government’s
policies in particular
underRidwanKamil administration as a mayor of Bandung city. In due to the involvement of media in Bandung, it makes
Bandung become the best city in Indonesia. Furthermore, the impact of media’s participation in developing bandung would
be explained further in this research.
Keyword - government policies, the participation of media, impact of media’s participation to Bandung development.