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Text your say: Confusing circular on foreign journos withdrawn
All square: French journalist Thomas Dandois shakes hands with a judge following the trial of Dandois and colleague Valentine Bourrat in Jayapura, Papua
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All square: French journalist Thomas Dandois shakes hands with a judge following the trial of Dandois and colleague Valentine Bourrat in Jayapura, Papua. The two French journalists were handed short jail terms for illegally reporting in the province and have now been set free and deported to their home country.(AFP/Cunding Levi) (AFP/Cunding Levi)
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span class="inline inline-center">All square: French journalist Thomas Dandois shakes hands with a judge following the trial of Dandois and colleague Valentine Bourrat in Jayapura, Papua. The two French journalists were handed short jail terms for illegally reporting in the province and have now been set free and deported to their home country.(AFP/Cunding Levi)
Your comments on the government's move to withdraw a circular requiring foreign journalists to report their activities to all levels of the government because it was deemed too confusing for the public:
For everything has its own limit; so does foreign coverage. We decide!
Eddy Arjuna Zainy
Since we are more and more living in a global village, and what is done in one corner of the world easily has an effect on another corner of our world, it is natural that reporters with another passport than that of Indonesia should also be able to report on or from Indonesia. Good decision Mr. President!
Taco Immanuel De Vries
The inconsistent policy shows us there's no coordination between the President and his ministers and among the ministers themselves. Mr. President, you have to be sturdy, strong, strict, solid and shady ' you can.
E. Nurdin
Mind you, Indonesian journalists face tougher conditions when doing their job abroad. Look at London and the UK in general! Filming in Trafalgar Square, they need to obtain permission from City Hall. Get the tripod and professional camera out on the street, police will hassle them.
Why is it OK to regulate journalists from a third world country but not those from Western/international media outlets?
Difabio
Yes, permits are required for filming. Also you will have to pay off the governor, regents, district heads and the police and Army heads of each government in London. And give donations to every local police officer. Also the London ojek (motorcycle taxi) riders will drive over the footpath and get into every scene.
TS
That's a lie. In the whole of the UK there are only two public locations ' Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square ' which have a specific provision against photography for commercial purposes without the written permission of the mayor. It's nothing to do with freedom of the press.
TD
On the Australian side it is called the icy cold Bintang war '¦ Australians are too worried about selling fine quality meat, wheat, vegetables and fruit to Asia and having holidays in Bali to worry about nationalistic Indonesian politicians.
Every Indonesian thinks these ministers are a joke and hope that one day it will get better.
Testing
These ministers are a major factor in the decline of foreign investment. None of them seems to be able to stand firm in anything and only make life miserable for any foreigner wanting to invest.
One day this, the next day that. A government that acts like that is seriously hampered by total ignorance or total war, and Indonesia certainly isn't at war.
Wi
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