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Issues: `Luna's tweet sparks much controversy'
Having channeled her anger through her Twitter account, TV show host-cum-soap opera actress Luna Maya has now been reported to the police for defamation
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aving channeled her anger through her Twitter account, TV show host-cum-soap opera actress Luna Maya has now been reported to the police for defamation.
Late on Thursday, Kamsal Hasan, head of the Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Journalists Association representing infotainment journalists reported Luna to the Jakarta Police, entertainment news portal detikhot.com stated.
Luna allegedly defamed infotainment journalists by posting a comment on her Twitter account on Tuesday, calling infotainment journalists lower than commercial sex workers and murderers. As of Wednesday morning, her Twitter account was no longer accessible.
News portal okezone.com reported that Luna had been angered by infotainment journalists after an incident in one of Central Jakarta's mall, where one of the journalists' cameras hit the head of Aleia, the daughter of Peterpan's vocalist Ariel, who had accompanied her that night.
Your comments:
Please don't generalize and write that it's the Indonesian Journalists Association who support this move by those paparazzi, who are not even journalists. It's only the Jakarta chapter.
The others stay true to the fight to end criminalization of the press by condemning this hypocritical, anti-freedom of speech, and therefore anti-freedom of the press, move.
Sindan
Jakarta
It's a shame that Luna Maya has become the poster girl for freedom of expression. She's definitely no Prita. Despite all the support she has gotten, the girl has no guts to defend her own rights and stays quiet instead.
But what can we do, what she wrote was stupid, yet we have to defend her right to write it, because it affects all of us. And no, infotainment workers are not journalists, nor do they follow journalism ethics in their profession.
PWI Jaya is a traitor to the cause of genuine journalists, who have been fighting to erase the defamation clauses in ITE Law and the criminal law and put an end to criminalization of the press. Shame on you, PWI Jaya!
Riana
Jakarta
Pathetic. Indonesian media whine about draconian criminal libel laws in one form or another being used to prevent them from reporting the news accurately and what do they do?
Why, the Indonesian Journalists Association files a criminal defamation complaint against one of its own.
This proves that Indonesia is not about to change any time soon and that the nation is one of double standards, including by those who should know better. Shame on you.
Phentermine
Washington
Why are they freaking out? They can dish out bad press about people but when they come back at them they can't take the heat?
Entertainment journalists are annoying. I hate being in an area where a famous person come in and a hundred of entertainment journalists follow them with cameras.
David K.
Jakarta
