On the media in Indonesia

Having travelled around Indonesia about 7 years ago,I was quite interested to read Lawrence Pintak's article in Arab Society and Media looking at the current state of the media.

He describes a change since he was last there in the dying days of the Suharto era where the media was still under strict control.Today

there was an explosion of new independent media outlets and a journalistic free-for-all that reflected the no-holds-barred politics that replaced one-party rule. While there are today more articles in the Criminal Code that constrain journalists than in the Suharto years, and the country has yet to remove the criminal libel provisions that stifle press freedom, the media largely reports what it wants (and, in the case of the tabloid press, what it wants to make up).