New Name, Same Game
The new Criminal Code draft bill still contains articles that could muzzle the press. Some of them are taken from the already expired anti-subversion laws.
October 7, 2003
LAST September, the South Jakarta District Court handed down another verdict potentially threatening the continued freedom of the press in Indonesia. The court sentenced former Rakyat Merdeka newspaper chief editor, Karim Paputungan, to five months in prison with a 10-month probation period for including caricatures of House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker, Akbar Tandjung, in the newspaper. The court ruled that the caricatures were insulting
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