Crashing into One Another in the Sky

Television frequencies in Indonesia are in a state of confusion as major TV stations take over small ones and regional TV stations lose out to the central TV stations.

March 14, 2006

The community of East Java has their own unique television program called Layar India (The Indian Screen), aired by JTV at 9am on Sundays. The films broadcast for this program are ordinary Indian films, but have been dubbed in the language used by the people of Surabaya, making them incredibly popular in the region. Each Sunday, the Bombay way of weeping, Indian fight scenes and songs and dances are broadcast in the vernacular language used in

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