Jakarta – The Communication and Information Technology Ministry has announced plans to begin screening media following an earlier finding that media reporting was prone to misinformation, as well as separatist and radical propaganda.

"We want to be proactive in reminding the media so they don't drift off course," ministry spokesman Gatot S Dewabroto said Thursday as quoted by kompas.com.

Gatot added that the Religious Affairs Ministry and National Education and Culture Ministry would assist in efforts to monitor media, but said any judgement would be made by his own ministry.

"We won't ban either the media or its content, but we are doing this so that people don't say the government lets the media do whatever it wants," he said.