The number of newspapers and magazines circulating throughout the country at present is approximately seven million a day. There are dailies, weeklies, fortnightly, weekly magazines, quarterly magazines, monthly magazines and bulletins. 

There are English-language dailies in Jakarta. Radio Republik Indonesia, the national radio network has stations throughout the archipelago, with the main station in Jakarta. There are "Nusantara" coordinating stations, besides regional and district stations. 

Apart from the state-controlled stations there are almost many privates stations, commercial and non- commercial. The orbiting communications satellite has made it possible to spread the television network to cover most areas of the country. 

Entirely state-controlled, there is one channel run by the government and another one is privately run although provincial stations have some of their own limited programs. Production of national feature films totaled 340 titles in 1990. 

There is an annual quota for the importation of foreign movies and in so doing; this encourages the growth in the domestic production of feature as well as documentary films. 

The shooting of films in Indonesia requires a permit from the Directorate of Film of the Department of Information in Jakarta. Private video cameras carried by tourists may be used freely, except where restrictions at certain areas apply.