TV station sued for scaring woman<\/p>\n
The South Jakarta District Court began hearing on Tuesday a
\nlawsuit against television station TransTV filed by a woman over
\nthe shooting of a reality show that she claimed "had committed an
\nunpleasant and felonious act against her".<\/p>\n
Diana Damey Pakpahan is demanding Rp 40 billion (US$4.4
\nmillion) in damages.<\/p>\n
The incident took place in August, when she and her husband
\nwent to Pondok Indah Hospital for her regular pregnancy checkup,
\nwhere in the parking lot she saw "a white, scary object
\nresembling that of a ghost".<\/p>\n
Startled by it, she panicked and ran into two other women who
\nwere running toward her screaming. She fell over.<\/p>\n
The "ghost" was later found out to be a mockup figure for
\nTransTV's Paranoid show, a mystical reality show in which people
\nare scared out of their wits by so-called ghosts and other
\nmacabre beings.<\/p>\n
What irked Diana was that the crew immediately left the scene
\nwithout even helping her, which she regarded as irresponsible.<\/p>\n
TransTV program manager and corporate communications director,
\nRiza Primadi, denied the accusation, saying that Diana was not
\nthe target of the show, but the two women, "who laughed after the
\ncrew told them that they had just taken part in the show".<\/p>\n
"We also apologized to her, and heeded the public's call that
\nwe stop airing the show, which we pulled in August," Riza was
\nquoted by online news portal Detik.com as saying.<\/p>\n
Separately, hundreds of elementary school students and their
\nteachers from the Jakarta Islamic School Network held a rally at
\nthe Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, demanding the media stop
\npublishing or airing mystical, erotic, violent material.<\/p>\n
"We hope the media heeds our call in respect of the upcoming
\nRamadhan," the group's coordinator Kadarusman said. -- JP<\/p>",
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