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February 27, 2011

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Media Group, which owns Metro TV and Media Indonesia, has reported Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam to the police over his recent call for a boycott of the two media outlets.

Metro TV director Tomi Suryopratomo, deputy director Sugeng Suprawoto and Media Indonesia daily's news division chief Gaudensius Suhardi reported the case to the police on Saturday, flanked by lawyer OC Kaligis.
 
Kaligis said Dipo had violated the Press Law and the Public Information Transparency Law.

"We think Dipo has violated principles of press freedom," Kaligis said, adding Dipo had been given three days to respond to their demand for an apology.

Dipo’s apology had been demanded by the two media companies owned by politician and media magnate Surya Paloh after the minister called on government institutions to implement an advertising boycott on media organizations such as them that relentlessly portrayed Indonesia as a “messy and dark” country.
 
Dipo accused the two media companies, along with TVOne, owned by the family of Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie, of spreading hatred toward the government through their news organizations.

Separately, a media law lecturer from state-owned Airlangga University, Dr Henry Subiyakto, said there was nothing wrong with what Dipo said.

Subiyakto said the two media organizations had once been reprimanded by the Indonesia Broadcasting Commission (KPI) for lack of objectivity or impartiality in reporting current issues on television. 
 
"That is one of the provisions in the broadcasting law, or the Broadcasting Attidude Manual and the Broadcasting Standard Program issued by the KPI. The two TV stations have often violated them. So it is logical if Dipo then expressed a complaint about the two stations," he said.

He said that Dipo, as a member of the government, had become a victim of impartiality.

"But the case became controversial because he's a ministerial level official. But he is a victim and his statement does not affect press freedom," he said.

Subiyakto said a media outlet owned by a business tycoon who is also a politician certainly has a political agenda, and that there were a lot of proofs that these media companies have been used as political tools by their owners.
 
"Now let's see if the media Dipo mentioned have been impartial or not," he said.

 
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