Binsar Gultom Judge of the Medan District Court and judge of the Ad-Hoc Human Rights Court, Jakarta

THE issue of criminalization of the press has once again become controversial. This time it has been triggered by several new articles in the Bill on the Criminal Code (KUHP), which the president will submit to the House of Representatives (DPR). In the KUHP Bill, various recent acts of crime are included: offenses of the press, serious right