Weakened Watchdog

The row between the KPI and RCTI is not confined to the channel’s Silet program. To improve supervision, the commission will issue monthly reports on the content aired by each television channel starting last month.

April 6, 2011

IT all started with an interview with a ‘paranormal’ on Silet, a program aired by Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI). According to the paranormal, the disaster afflicting Yogyakarta province, in the form of the eruption of Mount Merapi, was only the beginning. An even bigger disaster was on the way, the soothsayer prognosticated. Many people in Yogyakarta, who were at the time suffering great hardship as a result of the disaster, were u

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