Kadispenad Brigadier General Wahyu Yudhayana: Don't Be A Frog In Combating

Head of the Army Information Service (Kadispenad) Brigadier General Wahyu Yudhayana. (IST)

JAKARTA Sebagai insan penerangan, kita tidak boleh menjadi frog dalam lapangan. Jaksa itu meluncur tegas dari Kepala Dinas Penerangan Angkatan Darat (Kadispenad) Brigadier General TNI Wahyu Yudhayana saat membuka Pelatihan Journalisik bagi para personel penerangan TNI AD di Hotel Novotel Mangga Dua, Jakarta, Kamis (9/10/2025).

The world of information, he said, moved quickly, and lighting personnel should not be left behind. We must not be fixated on the routine of the program. Without training, without coaching, without renewing our abilities, sooner or later we will become froglings in the shells don't know that out there, the world has shot up far away, he said.

According to Brigadier General Wahyu, learning does not know the age, rank, or remaining service period. "As long as you are still breathing, the spirit of learning must live. That is the hallmark of professional lighting personnel," he asserted.

This training was attended by 72 lighting personnel from the TNI AD units for the Jabodetabek and Bandung regions offline, as well as 46 units of lighting throughout Indonesia online. The material includes the basis for writing news, interview techniques, writing features, journalistic photography, to media ethics "given by experienced practitioners in the world of public communication.

Not only theory, participants are also invited to practice writing news and taking pictures directly in the field. The goal is to form lighting people who are sensitive to news values, write quickly, and are able to produce informative content that is interesting to the public.

Brigadier General Wahyu hopes that this training will give birth to professional, creative, and adaptive lighting soldiers to changes in the media world. "We are the vanguard in building a positive image of the Indonesian Army in the community," he said.

This kind of coaching program, he continued, will continue to be carried out by Dispenad as a commitment to producing strong lighting soldiers, integrity, and ready to face communication challenges in the digital era.