According to ABC news Tempo cover for the Febuary 4-10 edition featured a skecth of Soeharto. Tempo taking Jesus Christ cartoon combines the head with Soeharto at a tablesurrounded by his child.Moreover, Tempo apologized because bring outing a cover Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper becasue Christian's complaints about that and felt insulted when Tempo magazine comparing between Jesus Christ and His followers. His followers want Tempo to Tempo pull the picture from the cover. Actually, according to Hadad they didn't imply to offense the Christians and Tempo also assure that not happening in the future. Tempo apologized by subheading : We did not have any meaning of insult Christians. It's just encourage by painting of Leonardo
Readers attempt to figure the illustration of image ( Shriver 1997) . Readers need text for explained the image. So, the followers Jesus felt insulting becasue it against off them believes. Christian's in Indonesia felt that President Soeharto not good enough comparing with their God. Soeharto did corruption whereas Indonesia becomes poor country. We cannot simply using picture of religion cause it's a culture believe to people. On the other point of view, Soeharto is a superhero for Indonesia where he becomes leader of Indonesia for 32 years and when he governing the economics of Indonesia stable. Furthermore, it's a sensitive issue around the world. According to Colzato (2008) readers powering by their culture , whta they saw and also feature. Indonesia is a place rich of culture and because that easily misunderstanding and easy to evoke offense.
Instead media publishing it's regulary happens. For that reason media must know the rules or any regulation before they make something . it's compulsory knowing people feeling , culture and also their believes. A good ethic should to post ethically and express a good opinion to avoid misunderstanding . Different people have a different opinion about image illustration because of diverse viewpoint ( Kress and Van Leewen 2006). In this issue Tempo be unsuccessful the reason Tempo not learn before they publish something and make followers Jesus unhappy.
Image is really illustrating a lot of message and meaning if there no text within. Understanding people about ine picture it's different. The image has demonstrated different meaning and point of view on different people. Depend how the readers undrestand the image by positive or negative perspective. For my point of view, Tempo magazine proper to apologize to followers of Jesus . It's because the picture causes unhappy and insulting Christian's.
Reference:
1." Indonesia weekly apologize over Last Supper Suharto cover",2008, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, viewed 2 June 2010,
2.Colzato,L 2008," Religion influence what people see", University Leiden, viewed 3 June 2010,
3.Jesus Christ All Abiut (2008), Jesus and The Last Supper, viewed 3 June 2010,
4.Schriver KA 1997, " The interplay of words and picture", Wiley Computer pub, New york.
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