The Media Circus in the 2014 Elections

As Indonesia gears up for the 2014 legislative and presidential elections, all eyes are on the media and how they will carry out their journalistic duties in a fair and objective way. After all, many of the media organizationsparticularly TVare owned by businessmen who aspire to be presidents. According to one of our columnists, the ownership of almost 90 percent of Indonesian mass mediaTV and radio news stat