When `Off' is `On'
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
The Supreme Court decided that the off--the--record mechanism can only be used by certain public officials. Accordingly, a source was sentenced to two months in jail.
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THE Indonesian press should raise the flag at half-mast. The sanctity of the off-the-record mechanism—the right of a source to ask reporters not to print his name and statements—is now under attack. In an appeal ruling on a slander lawsuit against Arifin Wardiyanto, head of the PT Telkom (state telephone company) Wates branch in Yogyakarta, the panel of judges issued a controversial decision.
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