Muffling the mass media dates back to the early years of independence and continued to be practiced well into the last years of Suharto's administration. History has noted that the honeymoons between the press and rulers in Indonesia have always been short-lived.

The following are several mass media publications muffled during the Sukarno administration and later in Suharto's.

1945-1949
Leftist Revolusioner, published in Yogyakarta, is