Indons not allowed to get ‘lively’ news

From the JAKARTA Post under the banner “News from foreign broadcasters cannot be aired lively” For a moment I thought they meant the items must be presented in a sombre manner. But no…it’s just plain old censorship and accountability. JAKARTA (AP): Indonesia next month will begin enforcing a law that bans local broadcasters from relaying live news packages provided by foreign stations like the British Broadcasting Corp.and Voice of America, Minister of Communications Sofyan Djalil said Monday.

Stations will have to first receive the broadcasts, edit them and then rebroadcast from a local relay station, he said.Sofyan said the reason for the law was so that viewers could hold “someone responsible” if the broadcasts were offensive.

The more things change…….