Daniel Dhakidae
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22 August 1945
Daniel Dhakidae | |
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| Born | Daniel Dhaki Dae 22 August 1945 Wekaseko Toto-Wolowae, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) |
| Died | 6 April 2021 (aged 75) Jakarta, Indonesia |
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Daniel Dhakidae (born Daniel Dhaki Dae; 22 August 1945 – 6 April 2021) was an Indonesian intellectual. He was the chief editor of the respected journal Prisma from 1979 to 1984. He also worked as the head of the research and development division of the newspaper Kompas from 1994 to 2006.
Daniel Dhakidae was born on 22 August 1945 in Wekaseko Toto-Wolowae, Flores, in what is present-day Nagekeo Regency. According to his younger brother, Longginus Bhiadae, Daniel had been born with Dhaki Dae as his last name, but he would change it Dhakidae.[1] During his youth, he studied philosophy, seeking to become a priest.[2] However, Daniel was "run out of his seminary," never becoming a priest.[3]
Education
Daniel would then attend Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. There, he majored in public administration and graduated in 1975.[4] He would go on to pursue further education in the United States with the support of Benedict Anderson, attending Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree in political science in 1987.[3][5] Four years later, Daniel would graduate from Cornell again, this time with a Doctor of Philosophy degree. His dissertation on the Indonesian media landscape titled "The State, the Rise of Capital, and the Fall of Political Journalism: Political Economy of Indonesian News Industry" received the Lauriston Sharp Prize from the Southeast Asian Program of Cornell.[5][6]