Bukan masaalah freedom of speech di Indoneia, tapi toh
tidak jauh juga...
Negera Arab keberatan televisi mengeritik pemerintah
negaranya.
Ketika yang menyampaikan berita kritis tentang negeri
Arab itu BBC atau CNN dan media dari negeri demokratik
lain, dibilang "Barat" ngegerecokin Islam...
Sekarang media Arab sendiri yang ngeritik..
Juga nggak boleh.
Lalu bagaimana negera-negara Arab itu bisa maju?
Kebebasan untuk mengeritik, kebebasan untuk penyatakan
pendapat adalah syarat untuk mencapai kemajuan.
Tapi apa urusannnya dengan Indonesia?
Karena ketakutan akan kritik, ketakutan akan freedom
of speech itu adalah bahagian dari budaya Islam dan
Indonesia itu - sekrang ini - dijajah oleh budaya
Islam.
Mengajar orang Islam untuk tahu apa artinya freedom of
speech adalah tugas tiap demokrat.
Catatan: orang Nasrani di Asia kayaknya ketularan
budaya Islam, karena kita baru melihat PGI dan KWI
tidak demen dengan freedom of speech dan press
freedom, dan orang katolik di Singapura juga setali
tiga uang....
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2008
23:36 MECCA TIME, 20:36 GMT
Arab countries seek broadcast curbs
Cairo and Riyadh frequently complain that satellite
channels criticise their governments [GALLO/GETTY]
Several Arab countries have adopted a draft document
which imposes "regulations" and restrictions on Arab
satellite television broadcasters and bars offending
their governments.
In Cairo on Tuesday information ministers of the
22-member Arab League all voted in favour of the
document, with only Qatar and Lebanon opposing.
The meeting was called at the request of Egypt, which
hosts the Arab League and serves as a base for several
Arab satellite channels.
Anas al-Fiqi, the Egyptian information minister, said
his country would be the "first to implement the Cairo
document".
"Some satellite channels have strayed from the correct
path," he said.
One of the points in the document requires that
stations "not to offend the leaders or national and
religious symbols" of Arab countries.
Al Jazeera factor
Cairo and Riyadh frequently complain of criticism of
their governments in talk shows aired by Al Jazeera
and other satellite channels.
The Cairo document authorises signatory countries to
"withdraw, freeze or not renew the work permits of
media which break the regulations".
It stipulates that satellite channels "should not
damage social harmony, national unity, public order or
traditional values".
It says that programming should also "conform with the
religious and ethical values of Arab society and take
account of its family structure".
Religious matters
Channels should "refrain from broadcasting anything
which calls into question God, the monotheistic
religions, the prophets, sects or symbols of the
various religious communities".
The document also says that broadcasters should avoid
"erotic or obscene material" or programmes that
"encourage smoking or the consumption of alcohol", the
latter prohibited by Islam.
They should also "protect Arab identity from the
harmful effects of globalisation".
Qatar said it was "still studying the document" and
that it did not "currently want to adopt" it for legal
rather than political reasons.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo
Allah yang disembah orang Islam tipikal dan yang digambarkan oleh al-Mushaf itu
dungu, buas, kejam, keji, ganas, zalim lagi biadab hanyalah Allah fiktif.
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