When Ghosts Rule Supreme
The most-read magazine in Indonesia thrives on ghost stories. An indication of people trying to escape the realities of life?
October 22, 2002
THE ghosts that reportedly haunt a house on Jalan Pondok Indah inCentral Jakarta have gained more public attention than DPR Speaker Akbar's conviction for corruption and Attorney General M.A. Rachman's failure to fully declare his wealth. Those were the findings of Media Index, a survey of Indonesian magazines by ACNielsen. Published two weeks ago, the findings rated Misteri, a magazine which thrives on the public interest in stories about gh
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