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JAKARTA (ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES) -Indonesia’s media landscape is anticipating a significant shift with the introduction of a new regulation that mandates digital platforms to compensate them for content.  President Joko Widodo’s announcement on February 20 regarding the publisher’s rights regulation has sparked optimism among media outlets.  Expected to come into effect in August, this regulation […]

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s media outlets have hailed a new regulation requiring digital platforms to pay them for content, which they hope will raise revenue and enable them to produce quality journalism.

A lack of trust in local media outlets has fuelled the rise of dubious citizen journalists on Indonesian social media.

Google Asia-Pacific VP said that the Publisher Rights Presidential Regulation is unworkable if implemented without change

KUALA LUMPUR: The proposed establishment of the Malaysia Media Council, which has been described as a regulatory mechanism for the industry, does not contradict the principles of media freedom championed by the govern­ment, the Dewan Negara was told.