Ghost in the Machine

The airing of Opera Tan Malaka was canceled by several local television stations. The army and police who forbade it regard local security as the priority.

January 19, 2011

AGUS Setiawan of the Brawijaya Regional Military Command, Surabaya, came to the office of Madura Channel television in Sumenap, last Monday. In the office of this station owned by Said Abdullah, a politician of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the army personnel met with Hidayat Rahman, Program Manager of Madura Channel, asking for ‘cooperation’ in not airing Opera Tan Malaka. “I said to Agus, I do not have the authorit

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