Banned magazines

Banned magazines

The Japanese media have reported the recent revocation of
licenses of Indonesia's Tempo, Editor and DeTIK magazines and
the arrest of people who took to the street to protest the ban.

We have subscribed to the Tempo magazine since the early
1980s, for our source of study on Indonesia, in our research
institution. We consider the articles published in the magazine
good and very useful for our study on the social, economic and
cultural phenomena of Indonesia. Without these materials we have
difficulty obtaining information on what is happening in
Indonesian society. This will in turn hamper our program of
cooperation between scholars and higher-learning institutions of
the two countries.

We, therefore, deplore the banning of the magazines mentioned
above.

TERUO SEKIMOTO

HIROYOSHI KANO

University of Tokyo