VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

VOInews, Jakarta: The Voice of Indonesia (VOI) the Overseas Service of RRI is hosting two Australian university students: Matthew Toohey and Maddie Toth who will take part in the ACICIS Journalism Professional Practicum (JPP) internship program from January 15 to 9 February 2024. To VOI in Jakarta on Monday (08/01) Matthew Toohey, a Bachelor's Degree (S2) university student majoring in International Relations and Journalism at Monash University, Melbourne expressed his interest in the world of multimedia journalism particulary online and radio.

“I’m really interested to see, to do some, I suppose, interviews and learn how to produce news across multiple different platforms. So, particularly online, particularly in radio and broadcast. I know that Voice of Indonesia has a really multi-platform approach, so I’m really interested to try both and see how that plays out when you do one story and you file it multiple different ways,” Mattew said.

Meanwhile Maddie Toth, a university student majoring in Communication and Journalism at Murdoch University, Perth Australia hopes to do behind-the-scenes jobs such as production, editing and scriptwriting.

“So I'm expecting to do a lot of behind-the-scenes work, a lot of production, editing, scripting, things like that. I kind of prefer being behind everything. And, yeah, so I think it would be an amazing opportunity to be able to produce and do work for Voice of Indonesia," Maddie said.

Furthermore, Australian Consortium for in-Country Indonesian Studies ( ACICIS ) is a non-profit consortium involving leading universities in Australia which has study programs on Indonesia. The Journalism Professional Practicum (JPP) internship program has been held since 2008 and it attracts many university students from Australia to obtain work experience in Indonesia, as well as deepening Indonesian culture.