Killing Time

September 18, 2007

FREEDOM of the press in Indonesia is once again under threat, not from the barrel of a gun, but from the bang of a judge’s gavel. The September 13, Supreme Court ruling in favor of Suharto in his lawsuit against Time, not only ordered the international magazine to publish apologies in several media, but also to pay him Rp1 trillion in compensation. This will have the same effect as muzzling the press. Does this mean that the New Order tactics o

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