Reduce TV levies!

Thu, 28 Aug 1997

Reduce TV levies!

From Pikiran Rakyat

The community and media have voiced many complaints about TV levies. Some wish the levies would be abolished, others want them reduced.

Government-owned TVRI should actually be financed by the state budget. Apparently there is no fund in the budget for TV operations. So, there is a levy on every TV set.

The government wants each citizen to obligingly pay the levy. However, there are many reasons why people are reluctant to pay the levy, one is the high amount which most people find burdensome.

I appeal to the government (the President, the information and finance ministers) to reduce the levy by 50 percent, making it the same amount before the increase a few years ago.

I think this would be reasonable. Besides, TVRI has now a 12.5 percent stake in the advertisement revenues of each of the five private TV stations.

I hope the government complies with my request.

I also ask the House of Representatives to fight for our wish.

YUYUN LISNAWATI

Bandung, West Java

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