Suara Masyarakat
Pieces of coal litter the beach by a jetty that was used to transport coal in Port Dickson, December 2021. (Photo/Nicole Fong)

Suara Masyarakat

published Dec 05, 2025 , last modified Dec 10, 2025

Suara Masyarakat (Community Voices) is a project to build investigative and data journalism capacity for Malaysian journalists, media practitioners and civil society to produce high quality investigative and data journalism reporting as well as space for dialogue between community media, citizen journalists and local authorities.

Project Summary
Start Date 2020-07-01
End Date 2021-04-15

Together with Internews, Sinar Project is worked to build investigative and data journalism capacity for Malaysian journalists, media practitioners and civil society to produce high quality investigative and data journalism reporting as well as space for dialogue between community media, citizen journalists and local authorities.

As part of this project Sinar Project worked on a report on the availability and use open data for journalism, and hold Investigative Journalism and, Data Journalism Boot Camps.

 

Activities
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Resources
Data Journalism Assessment - Malaysia
17 January 2022 In addition to providing readily available sources of data, this assessment report also shares case study examples of data journalism on health, environment, human rights and anti-corruption by leading local journalists, and a compilation of techniques and tips in finding and sourcing data needed for data journalism in Malaysia. Read More

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