Reduce TV levies!

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