MTV Unplugged?

Prohibitions and threats mark the Broadcasting Bill. Is press freedom under threat yet again?

September 10, 2002

TO say that Atmakusumah Astraatmadja, a member of the Press Council, is furious is an understatement. “This Bill is paranoid,” he says. The source of Atmakusumah’s rage is the House of Representatives (DPR). Last week, legislators and the government agreed on the final draft of the new Broadcasting Bill. The bill, which consists of 63 articles, is clearly designed to bring radio and television to heel through a raft of restricti

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