Balanced news coverage needed

Balanced news coverage needed

From Pos Kota

Stories about the defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)
have received intense coverage in the mass media, particularly
television, lately.

For the purpose of revealing facts about PKI's September 30,
1965 movement to set the record straight, the media have exposed
various opinions and reports around the incident as well as
interviews with statements opposed to the New Order version of
history.

Books and documentaries about the discovery of mass graves of
PKI members slain by security forces were also shown, along with
comments by relatives of the victims and surviving ex-PKI
members.

Professionally speaking, the media, especially television,
should also give balanced coverage by presenting data or stories
about victims of PKI atrocities in the past, in which civilians
also died at the hands of communists.

ALPERIS SIHOMBING
Tangerang, Banten