INDONESIA EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR SET UP OF LOCAL TV
December 30th 2007 01:15
The Indonesian government has extended the deadline for national television stations to build networks with local TV stations by selling part of their shares to the regional broadcasters.
The new deadline is to December 28, 2009.
The Jakarta Post reported that Indonesia’s Information and Communications Minister, Muhammad Nuh, said the government had to extend the deadline because it was impossible to provide technical regulations to implement the 2002 Broadcasting Law, which mandates the establishment of the networks, in less than two years.
However, a member of the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission, Bimo Nugroho, said both reviews were "irrelevant excuses" to justify the deadline extension.
"Neither review ever touched any article on the broadcast networking system," he told The Jakarta Post.
Bimo said the extension of the deadline showed the government's partiality to national TV stations, although he acknowledged that it was not easy for TV stations to implement the law because selling shares depended on market mechanisms.
- From MediaBlab
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