Press Freedom, Democracy, and Legal Certainty

October 26, 2004

 Frans H. Winarta
*Member of the National Law Commission

 

PRESS freedom is the most important element for information transparency. Moreover, in this reform era access to information is a basic human right. But regrettably, press freedom in Indonesia is once again threatened. It is because the series of civil lawsuits and criminal indictments against Tempo magazine and Koran Tempo daily may set a bad precedent for freedom of in


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