KPI gets 20,000 complaints on TV content

JAKARTA: Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) chairman Dadang Rachmat Hidayat said that as per November the commission had received 20,000 complaints on television content, a more than 200 percent increase from last year.

“The number of people filing complaints has grown dramatically. Last year we received just 7,500 complaints,” kompas.com quoted Rahmad as saying at a discussion themed the Controversy of Media Content in the Press Freedom Era in Jakarta on Monday.

However, he stressed that not all the media content was journalism products.

“Only 4 percent of complaints concerned news content while 80 percent of complaints related to TV gossip programs,” Rahmad said.

Dadang participated in the discussion with Indonesian Press Council deputy chairman Bambang Harymurti and Indonesian Journalists Association chairman Margiono (see photo, from right to left).  — JP