In fact, democracy actually contains civilization and order in social life which has a very noble goal in running the government. Apart from that threats to mass media workers and journalists still occur, even though threats and violence are carried out more by group interests. The mass media or the press is no longer the fourth pillar in democracy, but the mass media or the press is a part that must be guarded, because the mass media or the press represents itself as the main public space and also determines the dynamics that not only function socially and economically, but also function. In line with this matlamat, the transition of the broadcast media system system is monitored by a government order that is free from pressure and interference with the interests of power. However, after the 1998 reformation, democracy has made significant progress, with the fulfillment of the rights of civil society, there is a process of transferring authority which previously became the exclusive rights of the state to become the authority of the public. So that the information that reaches the public has experienced distortion and is no longer relevant. The freedom of the mass media or the press is monitored, so that freedom of information and news is limited. For 32 years, the Indonesian government system tended to adhere to an autocratic system. This article is a conceptual article that aims to answer the challenges of democratizing the mass media in the Indonesian context. The reforms that took place in Indonesia in 1998 were the starting point for community demands for a democratic system.

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