Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has sent warning letters to four Indonesia television stations – RCTI, Global TV, MNC TV and iNews TV – ordering them to stop airing a United Indonesia Party (Perindo) advertisement.
The broadcast was seen as a violation of The P3 [broadcasting code of conduct] and SPS [broadcasting program standards].
"The broadcast of the Perindo party campaign advertisement is a violation of public interest protection," KPI's content monitoring coordinator Hardly Stefano Pariela said on Friday, as quoted by Kompas.com.
Hardly said the Perindo party campaign was not in line with P3 & SPS requirements, which stipulate that programs are required to be in the public interest and not in the interest of a particular group.
The four stations allegedly violated Article 11 on KPI 2012 broadcasting program standards. "If they repeat this violation, we are ready to take the next step, including making a recommendation to the Communications and Information Ministry that their operational permit be revoked," Hardly said.
At the time this story was published, MNC Groups, the company which owns the four television stations, has not made any comments about the warning letters. (hol)