PPP needs own TV station

PPP needs own TV station

MEDAN: The United Development Party (PPP) says its sick of
state television station TVRI favoring Golkar in its campaign
coverage.

PPP functionaries have complained that every evening TVRI
gives Golkar more air time and dramatic footage than it does to
the PPP or the Indonesian Democratic Party.

To show their disgust, PPP campaigners paraded here Monday
with a box shaped like a TV camera with the inscription "TV P3".
Supporters raised their fists and yelled: "Viva TV PPP."

"We urge TVRI to prove its motto 'Building the nation's
unity' by balanced reporting," campaigner Yunus Rasyid was quoted
by Antara as saying.

The PPP's rally also featured a man wearing a hat inscribed
with a message saying the shaman who admitted last week killing
42 women was not a PPP member. (pan)