{"id":26437,"date":"2011-09-09T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T09:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26437"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:54:54","slug":"indonesia-radio-station-manager-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26437","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia: Radio station manager jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sentence of six months and a suspended sentence of another year in prison were <a title=\"RSF - Six months in jail for radio station manager who covered rights violations in China\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/indonesia-six-months-in-jail-for-radio-07-09-2011,40942.html\" target=\"_blank\">handed down on Tuesday<\/a> to Gatot Machali, manager of Batam-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erabarufm.com\/\">Radio Era Baru<\/a>, who was found guilty of broadcasting without permission and disrupting neighbouring frequencies. The station\u2019s president, Raymond Tan, citing a leaked copy of a letter from the Chinese embassy in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Indonesia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/indonesia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesia<\/a>, said the prosecution is the result of direct pressure by the Chinese government on the Indonesian authorities with the aim of preventing the station from broadcasting its programmes in Chinese about human rights violations in the <a title=\"Index on Censorship - China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">People&#8217;s Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sentence of six months and a suspended sentence of another year in prison were handed down on Tuesday to Gatot Machali, manager of Batam-based Radio Era Baru, who was found guilty of broadcasting without permission and disrupting neighbouring frequencies. The station\u2019s president, Raymond Tan, citing a leaked copy of a letter from the Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[7364,3764,7366,727,3763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79169,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26437\/revisions\/79169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}