The Constitutional Court's Cuts
The Constitutional Court should approve the disbanding of the Film Censorship Institute, which is now outdated. Replace it with a ratings institute, a suggestion that has nothing to do with liberalism.
April 8, 2008
FOR the next few weeks, we will be awaiting a ruling from the Constitutional Court on last December's proposal from the Indonesian Film Society to disband the Film Censorship Institute (LSF). Some of our filmmakers asked for a judicial review of Law No. 8/1992 on the Film Industry, and urged the Court to revoke the regulations establishing the LSF.
There are very good reasons for this. The censorship institute is now obsolete. It works behind closed
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