Having worked for more than 25 years as a journalist for Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW), Aboeprijadi Santoso could not hide his disappointment at the radio managements decision to shut down its Indonesian language broadcast service. "Cost-cutting is of course inevitable. But the way it was done by the Dutchwas worse, said the man known to friends as Tosi, last Wednesday.

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