DEFAMATION
Writing Wrongs
It is the first time that somebody who wrote a letter to an editor has been sentenced. It should have been the publisher that bore the consequences of its publication.
May 19, 2009
FROM the 185-square-meter penthouse on top of the Mangga Dua Apartments, Central Jakarta, the view was breathtaking. To the south was a bustling Jakarta while to the north there was a vast expanse of blue sea punctuated by the islands of the Thousand Islands Marine Park. When the sky was clear, the ships in Jakarta Bay were clearly visible from the room.
But this idyllic scene could come to a premature conclusion, said Fifi Tanang, the penthouse
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