ABSTRACT
This article discusses the participatory digital archive as a means to advocate justice for vulnerable groups. According to Brown (2004) and a report series issued by the Center for Innovation Policy and Governance (2013), groups such as religious minorities, ethnic minorities, women, children, people with different abilities (diffable), and sexual minorities around the globe, including in Indonesia, are considered vulnerable to victimization and violence. The combination of weak human rights enforcement and media oligopoly has resulted in severe conditions for creating an open and democratic society in Indonesia. Hence, by drawing on the contemporary archive studies approach, we recommend a participatory digital archive as an alternative advocacy model for vulnerable and minority groups in Indonesia. This model of participatory digital archives enables vulnerable groups to submit their own representation of their cultural identity as well as self-determination through a digital-based archival platform.
