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Sensor Film), Indonesia’s censor board. As long as these films met the censorship standards of the LSF, they could be shown in Chinese. Pus added that a rationale behind this exception could be that unlike videotapes and television, audiences needed to pay the price of admission to watch the movies. Thus, these films reached a smaller audience than other forms of media.
7. I decided to focus on electronic media because this generation neither had the means nor the ability to interact with text-based media such as newspapers, books, and magazines.
8. In his book, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Anderson (1998) argued that the concept of a nation is imagined because “the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (p. 6).