After the Storm
Following no-holds-barred lobbying by private TV station bosses, the government has proposed a drastically revised version of the Broadcasting Bill.
October 15, 2002
KARNI Ilyas was despondent, as he sat morosely sipping a glass of wine, the Wednesday we met at a Jakarta cafe. The Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Private Television Stations (ATVSI), and also SCTV's director of news, had a whole host of complaints. What about? The Broadcasting Bill, of course, which threatens the survival of his TV station, and also the country's other private TV broadcasters, by prohibiting them from broadc
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