`RCTI' to start bilingual programs

`RCTI' to start bilingual programs

JAKARTA (JP): Good news is on the way for those who dislike
watching soap operas or cartoons which are dubbed into Bahasa
Indonesia and broadcast by the private channel RCTI.

An official of RCTI said the station on Wednesday will start
airing bilingual serial movie programs, in Bahasa and in English,
to let viewers make their own choices.

"If you want Rebecca Gilling speaking Bahasa choose channel
one, but choose channel two if you want her speaking English,"
said Murdjadi Ichsan, a public relations officer of RCTI,
referring to the star of an Australian-made Return to Eden serial
movie.

Ichsan told The Jakarta Post yesterday that PT Rajawali Citra
Televisi Indonesia (RCTI) will start the bilingual broadcasts,
which can only be received by certain television sets, on the
Return to Eden and Judge Bao serials.

Return to Eden is usually aired every Wednesday at 1 p.m.
while Judge Bao is broadcast every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m.

Television sets should be equipped with a stereo system which
provides viewers with double-track audio facility.

It can separate different audio signals into an autonomous
track by pushing the right two buttons: channel one and channel
two.

Ichsan said that modern television sets usually come with a
built-in stereo system.

RCTI currently dubs 10 serial movies including well-known
cartoons like Candy Candy, Dora Emon, Saint Seiya as well as
movies for children such as The Masked Black Rider, Power Ranger
and White Fang.

It also broadcasts dramas such as Soledad, Isamar and Return
to Eden as well as the Hong Kong-made Judge Bao classic story.

Ichsan said RCTI will start the bilingual program in the
Greater Jakarta area for the next two months while preparing
similar programs in Bandung, Yogyakarta, Semarang, Surakarta,
Malang and Surabaya, all in Java, as well as in Denpasar (Bali),
Medan and Palembang (Sumatra), Manado and Ujungpandang
(Sulawesi).

He said it will be some time before RCTI works the same way in
Balikpapan, Pontianak and Banjarmasin (Kalimantan), Kupang
(Timor), Jayapura (Irian Jaya) and Ambon (Maluku).

The reason is that at the moment the relay stations in the
areas are only able to transmit mono audio signals.

Ichsan said RCTI will soon finance the development of stereo
signals. (09)