tempointeractive, 7 December 2009
Screenings of the banned Balibo in Indonesia continue on Monday as the Alliance of Independent Journalists defied warnings from the authority and going to hold its second and bigger screening of the movie at the Taman Ismail Marzuki center of culture and art on Monday night.
The screening on Monday includes a discussion involving speakers from the military, historian, and the censorship body, and spokeswoman for the group Ezki Suyanto said “The Alliance of Independent Journalist is prepared to be summoned by the police because this is part of the freedom of expression and journalism education.”
In the first screening last week, organised in cooperation with the KBR 68H news radio and Utan Kayu Community cultural club, there were more audiences than the capacity of the venue could contain, forcing the organiser to set up another screen for half of the audiences.
The first screening sparked a warning by the Culture and Tourism Minister, Jero Wacik, calling the police to take measure against screenings.
Ezki said the movie had been screened in East Timor last month and she claimed that “there was no reaction from the people there, its not even in the paper, this is just a small matter, the government was just being scared without clear reason.”
Another non-govermental organisation the Institute for Global Justice also played the film last week, and the group's chapters in other cities in the country have been asking for copies of the film.
Source: tempointeractive
Screenings of the banned Balibo in Indonesia continue on Monday as the Alliance of Independent Journalists defied warnings from the authority and going to hold its second and bigger screening of the movie at the Taman Ismail Marzuki center of culture and art on Monday night.
The screening on Monday includes a discussion involving speakers from the military, historian, and the censorship body, and spokeswoman for the group Ezki Suyanto said “The Alliance of Independent Journalist is prepared to be summoned by the police because this is part of the freedom of expression and journalism education.”
In the first screening last week, organised in cooperation with the KBR 68H news radio and Utan Kayu Community cultural club, there were more audiences than the capacity of the venue could contain, forcing the organiser to set up another screen for half of the audiences.
The first screening sparked a warning by the Culture and Tourism Minister, Jero Wacik, calling the police to take measure against screenings.
Ezki said the movie had been screened in East Timor last month and she claimed that “there was no reaction from the people there, its not even in the paper, this is just a small matter, the government was just being scared without clear reason.”
Another non-govermental organisation the Institute for Global Justice also played the film last week, and the group's chapters in other cities in the country have been asking for copies of the film.
Source: tempointeractive
