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1. Press is a social and mass communication institution that operates within journalistic
activities that include seek, acquire, own, record, analyze, and disseminate
information, on all forms either in written, sound, picture, sound and picture, with
data and graphic in any other form, by using printing media, electronic media and all
kinds of available channel.
2. Press company is an Indonesian legal entity operating in press enterprise that
includes printing media company, electronic media company, and news agency, and
also other media company that specializes in operating, broadcasting or disseminate
information.
3. News agency is press company that serves printing media, electronic media, or any
other media and the public in general, in acquiring information.
4. Journalist is person who regularly conducts journalistic activities.
5. Press organization is journalists’ organization and press companies’ organization.
6. National Press is press conducted by Indonesia press companies.
7. Foreign Press is press conducted by foreign press companies.
8. Censorship is a coercive deletion on the part or whole of information materials to be
published or broadcast, or warning or notice of intimidation in nature by any party,
and/or obligation to report, and acquiring permission from the authorized body in
conducting journalistic activities.
9. Ban or restriction of broadcasting is discontinuation of publishing and circulation or
coercive broadcasting or against the law.
10. The Right to Refuse is the right owned by journalists as professional to refuse in
divulging names and/or other identities from sources to be kept concealed.
11. The Right to Response is the right owned by individual or group to response or deny
any factual news that is unfavorable for his/their good reputation.
12. The Right to Correct is the right owned by everybody to correct or restore any
inaccurate information published by press, either concerning himself or any other
person.