Court strikes down press law as unconstitutional
By uppercaise
A controversial 47-year-old law allowing the Indonesian government to ban offensive books has been struck down by the constitutional court, in another example of Indonesia’s striving for a more open society, a struggle hard-won from the Reformasi battle against the Suharto dictatorship.
While we in Malaysia are arguing over nonsense, the Indonesian press — already freer than Malaysians could imagine — have won a major victory for freedom of expression, and to curb arbitrary decision-making by officials and ruling politicians.
Read more at: http://uppercaise.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/indon-loses-power-to-ban-books
