Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Experts have warned that Indonesia's mass media, especially television channels, have delivered poor quality news coverage of the 2014 elections, forcing

Shannon Gillies, Dili – Confusion reigns over a controversial media law adopted by Parliament but yet to be promulgated in the fledgling Asia-Pacific democracy of Timor-Leste.

Fransiska Nangoy and Randy Fabi, Jakarta – If Indonesia's presidential election were to be decided by favorable coverage on its television channels, ex-general Prabowo Subianto would be

The journalist who revealed Indonesia's move to pull out of a New Zealand-funded police training programme in West Papua says he believes political sensitivity is behind the decision.

The new media law in Timor-Leste should be vetoed by the country's President, agrees the Pacific Freedom Forum.

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has again sent out warning letters to a number of television stations as a reprimand for their unbalanced coverage on the presiden

Anna Majavu – La'o Hamutuk, an independent development watchdog, has called on Timor-Leste President Taur Matan Ruak to veto a controversial new media law that has just been passed by P

Jakarta – The nation will again see a fierce political battle involving media magnates after MNC group owner Hary Tanoesoedibjo pledged support for Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa in

Thomas Hornall – Twelve years ago East Timor, or Timor-Leste, was recognised as the 191st member of the United Nations after a devastating 25-year Indonesian occupation.

Dili (Jornal Independente/Pacific Media Watch) – It was a stunt that arguably in any democratic country on any given day would have led the media headlines and stopped anyone that cared

Jakarta – The Press Council said on Friday that most of Indonesia's media companies do not fulfill their duty to protect journalists' rights.

Ted McDonnell – The East Timorese parliament has passed legislation that will restrict journalists.

Jakarta – The Press Council is calling for better protection for journalists in Indonesia to mark World Press Freedom Day, which falls every May 3.

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Widodo Putro and Ward Berenschot – In 2011, the village of Kadangmas in Kudus District, East Java, was designated as the site of a large water reservoir.

Jayapura – Members of European Union parliament urged Indonesia to allow independent observers including those from the EU and the United Nations to monitor elections in Papua.

Jose Belo, Timor-Leste's celebrated champion of investigative journalism and advocate for a free media, recently vowed he was prepared to go to jail rather than allow his fledgling inde

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The daughter of former president Soeharto, Siti Hardiyanti "Tutut" Rukmana, on Monday filed a police report against media mogul and Hanura Party vice-preside

Mong Palatino – To allegedly protect the rights of media practitioners, the government of East Timor is proposing a media law that is now being deliberated in the parliament.

Lindsay Murdoch – Jose Belo was shackled, hung upside down, electrocuted, beaten, burnt and jailed for three years in the mid-1990s because of his resistance to Indonesia's brutal occup

East Timor's journalists' union has criticised the country's proposed media laws for being too restrictive on journalists.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Post ranked second on a list of Indonesia's most popular newspapers compiled by 4 International Media and Newspaper, as published on its website www.4imn.com.

Yogyakarta – A solidarity rally was organized in Yogyakarta on Tuesday as a mark of protest against an incident in which a petrol bomb was thrown at the house of Frietqi Suryawan, a jou

Mong Palatino – East Timor journalists and human rights groups are opposing a government-proposed media law which they believe would lead to possible media censorship and repression in

Simon Roughneen – A proposed new media code in Timor-Leste is raising hackles among the country's press, who see an attempt to impose curbs on journalists and criminalise transgressions

Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has pulled two television shows off the air amid complaints that the programs clearly favored the party of owner and vice presiden

David Robie, Auckland (Cafe Pacific/Pacific Media Watch): Timor-Leste Press Club has this week transformed itself into the fledgling Timor-Leste Press Union and now seeks to become affi

David Robie – The proposed Timor-Leste media law is a draconian mixed bag.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A group of civil society organizations, called the Frequency Belongs to the Public (FMP), plans to take the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) to court as

Auckland (Green Party/Pacific Media Watch) – The Green Party is calling on the New Zealand government to end their $6.3 million police training programme in West Papua in light of new e

Hariet Conron – At the launch of its 2014 World Report on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch called on the government to lift the ban on foreign journalists entering the volatile provinces o

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A civil society group has started a movement to empower the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) to get tough on private television stations promoting the i

Jayapura – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Papua says violence against journalists doubled in 2013 from the previous year.

Jayapura – Throughout the year 2013, in the records Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Jayapura city occurred 20 cases of intimidation and violence against journalists in Papua.

A Canadian man who cycled around the world to raise awareness of human rights abuses in West Papua says Indonesian media outlets have insulted him by distorting comments he made about p

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A team of lawyers from the Association of Indonesian Journalists (PWI) Yogyakarta branch blasted the Yogyakarta Police's tardy 17-year investigation into

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The lawyer for the Indonesian Journalist Association (PWI) blasted the police's lackluster investigation into the death of Bernas newspaper journalist Muh

A former Chief Editor of the Jakarta Post says restrictions on foreign media visiting the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua should be lifted.

David Robie, Dili – While the Timor-Leste media industry was rejuvenated by a national congress last month that voted on a new code of ethics, one of the country's most independent chie

Journalists in Indonesia have called on the Government to clarify rules for journalists wanting to visit the provinces of Papua and West Papua.

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The President of the Alliance of Independent Journalists of Indonesia says his government should clarify the rules for foreign journalists seeking to visit West Papua.

An Indonesian parliamentarian, Eva Sundari, says there should be no restriction for foreign journalists wanting to go to Papua.

Australian RWB correspondent Mark Pearson tells us about an historic congress of Timor Leste journalists which was held in Dili from 25 to 27 October.

An historic congress of Timor-Leste journalists held in Dili recently voted for their first code of ethics and a seven-member press council.

Daniel Drageset – A petition to revoke the ban on media reporting from West Papua has been initiated by press freedom groups.

Yogyakarta – State Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan gave money to students attending a seminar on journalistic ethics.

Tom Benner, Dili, East Timor – Media in this young democracy in Southeast Asia suffer from a lack of professionalism, accuracy, and ethics, argue proponents of new legislation that woul