Pulling Power

The government and the owner of SCTV are suspected to be behind the cancellation of the Sigi investigative show which exposed long-standing indecent practices in public correctional facilities.

October 27, 2010

"I WAS summoned by the President,” said Justice & Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar last Friday. He was rushing out of the Press Council conference room but was forced to speak by scores of waiting reporters.

“I neither banned nor ordered anyone to ban the broadcast of the Sigi program,” he said following the meeting with the Press Council members. This was the denial for the umpteenth time since the SCTV television station’s investig

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