From Bad to Worse

LAST Wednesday, the Newspaper Publishers Union (SPS) openly expressed objection to the new draft Criminal Law Code at the end of its congress in Jakarta. The SPS criticized the bill for placing even stricter curbs on freedom of the press in Indonesia.

The Indonesian press suffered several setbacks recently when a series of lawsuits were filed against journalists for biased reporting. In these cases, police applied criminal provisions cont

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