Is Our Press Truly Free?
May 5, 2010
Bambang Harymurti
THIS week we celebrate World Press Freedom Day. It will be the 19th anniversary of the journalists’ declaration that was launched in the town of Windhoek in Namibia. The declaration was a statement maintaining that freedom of the press is the main requisite for creating and maintaining a democratic system and economic development. Of course, this does not just mean the right for the press to be free but that the p