<![CDATA[Digital media disruption has significantly affected conventional media, including radio broadcasting. Nevertheless, several community radio stations continue to survive by presenting local cultural uniqueness as their main attraction. One of them is Radio Campursari Jakarta, which carries the tagline “The Radio of Sobat Ambyar, Unifier of the Nation.” This study aims to analyze the extent to which Radio Campursari Jakarta functions as a unifying medium from the perspective of community media. This research uses a constructivist paradigm with a qualitative approach. Data were collected through observation, interviews with radio managers, announcers, listeners, and documentation. Data were analyzed through reduction, presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results show that Radio Campursari Jakarta’s strength lies in its Javanese cultural identity through the use of the Javanese language, Javanese dialect, and campursari songs. This uniqueness has become a strategy to maintain its existence amid digital media competition. Its listener community is dominated by Javanese people, although some listeners come from other ethnic groups and overseas through streaming radio. The tagline “unifier of the nation” symbolically creates solidarity among listeners, but substantively it has not fully represented Indonesia’s diverse ethnic, linguistic, and cultural identities. The study concludes that Radio Campursari Jakarta has succeeded as a local culture-based community radio that strengthens solidarity among Javanese migrants, but it still requires multicultural program innovation to truly become a national unifying medium.]]>
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