The following stories are tagged with the term/s or name/s ‘Media’.
The May 1998 riots in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities, mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be viewed.
Hizbullah Al Manar television become available to Indonesians courtesy of Indosat.
The Indonesian government creates distractions and the media willingly participate, to hide the real problems of Indonesia.
The banned movie about the Bali bombings, Promised Paradise.
The commercialisation of the Hindu festival of Nyepi in Bali.
Media self censorship in Indonesia, a self-censored media.
Budaya Muslim-Arab yang telah dimasukkan ke Indonesia akan menemui ajalnya.
The Indonesian way of death is too graphic.
The nature of the anti-communist massacres in Indonesia of 1965-66.
Some easy ways that Indonesians make money on the internet.
Sejumlah cara untung-untungan yang dipakai orang Indonesia untuk cari duit di internet.
The quality of tv in Indonesia and its influence on people.
Television programs that violate Islamic law.
The Batam airwaves are often a mix of foreign and religious content.
Press freedom is threatened in the outcome of the Soeharto vs. Time libel case.
Metro TV’s Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.
Pornography and indecency in Indonesia causes rape and lifetime misery.
Registering dot co id domains has become easier.
A presidential scandal involving Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Banning mystical and alternative medicine on television.
Book censorship of Indonesian books in Malaysia.
Much of the media in Indonesia is bad quality, pornographic and unprofitable.
Dealing with pornography and protecting children.
Ahmad Dhani and Maia take their marital problems to the police.
Indonesia ranks highly for internet sex searches.
Police crack down on the playing of online Bola Tangkas.
A classic headline from the Jakarta Post.
Foreign radio and television broadcasts should be censored, say some leaders.
Internet porn sites should be blocked by the government, say religious leaders.
Indonesia’s press freedom level remains fairly low.
The top 100 websites viewed from Indonesia.
Eight television stations may be prosecuted for screening violent and sexually oriented programs.
Wayang should be promoted as an alternative to violent television shows such as SmackDown, says Jusuf Kalla.
Television stations show too many soap operas with stories of romance in high schools, says a religious leader.
Calls are growing for the banning of American wrestling shows on television, such as SmackDown.
The Jakarta Post website and Chinese porn.
“Golkar not to repeat funny convention” says Antara.
Antara advertises a planned anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian march by an obscure group in Lampung.
The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) advises what should not appear on television screens during the upcoming “holy month” of Ramadan.
The national news agency, Antara, makes a fool of itself, and the country.
Members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) are threatening to boycott television, unless they get their way on the gossip show issue.
The Broadcasting Commission is examining the question of porno on cable television channels.
The pain felt by the Palestinians is spreading across the world like a virus, Antara tells us.
www.Anshar.net & Chatroom Jihad.
An analyst complains that television news programs are overly interested in matters of theology and religious doctrine.
The Nahdlatul Ulama’s fatwa against television gossip, or infotainment, shows.
The chairman of the Ulema Council, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), has asked the government to ban Playboy magazine.
The editor of the Rakyat Merdeka Online faces criminal prosecution over his website’s publishing of the prophet Muhammad cartoons.
The legal manouverings of the Islamic Defenders Front become even more bizarre as famous singer Krisdayanti is reported to the police for appearing in an advertisment in the third edition of Playboy.
As the third edition of Indonesian Playboy comes out two men from the Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, go on trial for an instance of their earlier battle with the magazine.
The depiction of religiously observant Muslims on television has increased greatly in recent years but some remain unhappy at the stereotypical nature of such depiction.
Two models, Joanna Alexandra and Fla Priscilla, who appeared in the second edition of Indonesian Playboy have been reported to the police.
One of the “Playboy Three”, Andara Early, was questioned again by police and will likely be charged with indecent behaviour.
Three of the people associated with the first edition of Indonesian Playboy magazine will be prosecuted.
Some Balinese Hindus are less than enthused about Playboy magazine.
There is debate over whether Indonesian Playboy magazine can be considered part of the press or as something else.
Playboy second edition out, from the safe haven of Bali.
Cases of political disappearances in the last years of the Suharto regime.
First Playboy and now Forbes. Foreign media companies are taking an increasing interest in the Indonesian market.
Kartika Oktavini Gunawan was the playmate in the first, and likely last, edition of Indonesian Playboy.
A second edition of Playboy Indonesia magazine may not be forthcoming.
A group of about forty activists descended on the home of singer and dancer Inul Daratista in Jakarta.
The Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, have found new meaning in their lives with the publication of an Indonesian version of Playboy magazine.
The first Indonesian version of Playboy magazine came out today.
Rubbish From Indonesia & Australia.
Sandrina Malakiano and jilbab wearing.
The lovely Zaskia Adya Mecca has been enlisted in an anti-abortion campaign in south Sulawesi.
On Indonesian web design and web designers.
A report titled “Freedom of Expression and the Media” in Indonesia, part of a series of “baseline studies on seven Southeast Asian countries” (what is “baseline”?), was released in December 2005 by Article 19 in London and the Independent Alliance of Journalists in Jakarta.
Playboy - Battle of the Petitions.
Early reactions on the first Muhammad cartoon issue were muted.
The peculiarities of Indonesian soap opera.
Indonesian newspaper Rakyat Merdeka’s website publishes the Muhammad cartoons.
Three films dealing with the Indonesian occupation of East Timor have been banned from a film festival in Jakarta.
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