Sofyan Abdul Djalil: “Journalists should not be detained because of their articles”

SOFYAN Djalil, the new State Minister for Information & Communication, is a native of Aceh. Tempo met him as he was breaking his fast last week in his huge office. It is a far cry from his salad days in 1976, when he used to board in the area around the Menteng Raya Mosque in Central Jakarta, not far from the secretariat offices of the Islamic Students of Indonesia (PII).

That was when he was jobless and took on the job of mosque caretaker, as w

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