Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.   – Thomas Jefferson

The State of the Media in Indonesia: Ten Years after Soeharto

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

NED’s CIMA and Asia Program hosted an afternoon presentation that analyzed the media landscape in Indonesia, including new regulations for  broadcast media, the latest defamation case against Tempo, and rising violence toward journalists, which have posed a threat to the nation’s hard-won press freedoms.

Speakers

Janet Steele
Associate Professor of Journalism at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs

Munarsih Sahana
Senior Journalist with Radio Republic Indonesia (RRI) and recentHumphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Helmi Johannes
Executive TV Producer at the Indonesian service of the Voice of America

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