Indonesian journalism has swung from one extreme to the other. Under Suharto there was hardly any press freedom. Now some think there is too much, and that there are too few practitioners who are equipped to manage in this new media landscape, ANDREAS HARSONO.
IT began in June last year when Kompas, Indonesia’s largest daily newspaper, published a report about former president Abdurrahman Wahid’s intention to remove a young politician from his key party post.
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