Silence Reigns
RCTI and SCTV ceased broadcasting an advertisement about Islam after receiving warnings from the Mujahidin Council. Is Indonesia facing a new era of censorship?
August 13, 2002
The popular 1980s religious song Perdamaian (Peace) plays in the background as a group of boysattend a circumcision rite. The screen lights up with the words: "Islam is multicolored, there is not only one Islam. There are many kinds, each mutually respectful". Thus ends the one-minute community service advertisement from the Utan Kayu Muslim Community.
However, after only one week of broadcast, the advertisement has been taken off the air. L
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