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Letter to the editor: Saudi Embassy objects to caricature

In reference to the caricature that appeared in The Jakarta Post on Feb

The Jakarta Post
Thu, February 21, 2019

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Letter to the editor: Saudi Embassy objects to caricature

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span>In reference to the caricature that appeared in The Jakarta Post on Feb. 19, which contained the phrase “I was not implicated in the savage murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi” and a paper [check] that read “To Pakistan the sum of US$20,000,000,000”, the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Jakarta strongly objects. Its publication has personally discredited Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman Al Saud.

Considering the good relationship between the embassy and the media in Indonesia, especially the Post, and referring to Article 6 of the Indonesian Journalist Code of Ethics, which says “Indonesian journalists respect and highly appreciate the private life of individuals by not circulating news, articles or pictures that can harm their reputation or sense of decency, except if it concerns public interests”, and Article 11, which stipulates “Indonesian journalists by their own consciousness immediately retract or correct any publication that turns out to be inaccurate and give a source or subject of news an opportunity to exercise the right to reply proportionally”, the embassy is asking the Post to apologize for printing the cartoon that has offended Saudi Arabia and publishing news coming from unreliable sources.

The embassy welcomes and underscores the importance of communicating with us in order to obtain information from its original source.

 

Yahya bin Hassan Al Qahtani
Charges d’Affaires
Embassy of Saudi Arabia
Jakarta

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