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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. |