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In carrying out its functions, rights, obligations and roles, the press respects everyone's human rights, therefore the press is demanded to be professional and open to be controlled by the community.
To guarantee freedom of the press and fulfill the public's right to obtain correct information, Indonesian journalists need a moral and ethical professional foundation as operational guidelines in maintaining public trust and upholding integrity and professionalism. On that basis, Indonesian journalists establish and abide by the Journalistic Code of Ethics:
b. Accurate means true believed according to the objective situation when the event occurred.
c. Balanced means that all parties have equal opportunities.
d. Not having bad intentions means that there is no intentional intent and solely to cause harm to others.
a. show identity to the interviewees;
b. respect for privacy rights;
c. not bribe;
d. produce factual and clear source news;
e. engineering of the taking and loading or broadcasting of images, photographs, sound and is accompanied by information about the source and displayed in a balanced manner;
f. respecting the traumatic experience of the resource person in presenting images, photos, sounds;
g. not plagiarism, including stating the results of other journalists' coverage as their own work;
h. the use of certain methods can be considered for reporting investigative news in the public interest.
b. Balanced is to give proportional space or time for reporting to each party.
c. Opinion judge is the personal opinion of a journalist. This is different from interpretive opinion, which is opinion in the form of journalist's interpretation of facts.
d. The principle of presumption of innocence is the principle of not judging someone.
b. Defamation means baseless accusations made intentionally with bad intentions.
c. Sadistic means the cruel and relentless.
d. Obscene means an erotic depiction of behavior with photos, images, sounds, graphics or writing solely to arouse sexual desire.
e. In broadcasting pictures and sound from the archives, reporters include the time of shooting and sound.
b. Child is a person who is less than 16 years old and is not married.
b. Bribery is any gift in the form of money, objects or facilities from other parties that influences independence.
b. An embargo is a delay in loading or broadcasting news according to the request of the source.
c. Background information is any information or data from a source that is broadcast or reported without mentioning the source.
d. Off the record is any information or data from sources that may not be broadcast or reported.
b. Discrimination is a difference in treatment.
b. Personal life is all aspects of a person's life and family other than those related to the public interest.
b. The apology was delivered when the error associated with the main substance.
b. The right of correction is the right of everyone to correct misinformation reported by the press, both about themselves and about others.
c. Proportional means equivalent to the news section that needs to be repaired.
The final assessment of violations of the journalistic code of ethics was carried out by the Press Council. Sanctions for violations of journalistic code of ethics are carried out by journalist organizations and / or press companies.
Samboja, Thursday, February 21, 2008
(Journalistic Code of Ethics was established by the Press Council through Press Council Regulation Number: 6 / Regulation-DP / V / 2008 concerning Ratification of Press Council Decree Number 03 / SK-DP / III / 2006 concerning Journalistic Code of Ethics as a Press Council Regulation)
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press are human rights protected by Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. The existence of cyber media in Indonesia is also part of freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press.
Cyber media has a special character that requires guidance so that its management can be carried out in a professional manner, fulfilling its functions, rights and obligations in accordance with Law Number 40 of 1999 concerning the Press and Journalistic Code of Ethics. For this reason, the Press Council, together with press organizations, cyber media managers, and the public, compile the Guidelines for Media News Coverage as follows:
1. Scope
a. Cyber Media is any form of media that uses internet media and carries out journalistic activities, and meets the requirements of the Press Law and Press Company Standards established by the Press Council.
b. User Generated Content is any content created and or published by cyber media users, including articles, images, comments, sounds, videos and various forms of uploads attached to cyber media, such as blogs, forums, reader comments or viewers, and other forms.
2. Verification and balance of news
a. In principle every news must be verified.
b. News that can be detrimental to others requires verification of the same news to meet the principles of accuracy and balance.
c. The provisions in item (a) above are excluded, provided that:
1) News really contains urgent public interests;
2) The first news source is a source that is clearly identified, credible and competent;
3) the existence of a news subject that must be confirmed is unknown and or cannot be interviewed;
4) The media provides an explanation to the reader that the news still requires further verification which is sought in the shortest possible time. The explanation appears at the end of the same story, in parentheses and italics.
d. After loading the news in accordance with item (c), the media must continue the verification effort, and after verification is obtained, the verification results are included in the update news with a link to the unverified news.
3. User Generated Content
a. Cyber media must include terms and conditions regarding User-Made Contents that are not in conflict with Law No. 40 of 1999 concerning the Press and Journalistic Code of Ethics, which is placed in a clear and clear manner.
b. Cyber media requires each user to register for membership and first log-in to be able to publish all forms of User-Generated Content. Provisions regarding log-in will be regulated further.
c. During the registration, cyber media requires the user to give written consent that the User Generated Content published:
1) Does not contain false, slanderous, sadistic and obscene contents;
2) Does not contain content that contains prejudice and hatred related to ethnicity, religion, race and intergroup (SARA), and advocates acts of violence;
3) Does not contain discriminatory contents based on differences in gender and language, and does not demean the dignity of the weak, poor, sick, mentally disabled, or physically handicapped.
d. Cyber media has absolute authority to edit or delete User-Made Content that conflicts with item (c).
e. Cyber media is obliged to provide a mechanism for complaints of User-Made Content that is considered to violate the provisions in item (c). The mechanism must be provided in a place that is easily accessible to users.
f. Cyber media must edit, delete, and take corrective actions for every User-Made Content that is reported and violates the provisions of item (c), as soon as possible proportionally no later than 2 x 24 hours after the complaint is received.
g. Cyber media that has fulfilled the provisions in items (a), (b), (c), and (f) is not burdened with responsibility for problems caused by loading contents that violate the provisions in item (c).
h. Cyber media is responsible for User-Made Contents that are reported if they do not take corrective actions after the time limit referred to in item (f).
4. Correction, and Right of Reply
a. Corrections, and right of reply refer to the Press Law, Journalistic Code of Ethics, and the Right to Answer Guidelines established by the Press Council.
b. Errata, correction and or right of reply must be linked to news corrected, corrected or given right of reply.
c. Every news of errata, correction, and right of reply must include the time of errata correction, correction and / or right of reply.
d. If a certain cyber media news is disseminated by other cyber media, then:
1) The responsibility of the news media cyber media is limited to news published in the cyber media or the cyber media under its technical authority;
2) Correction of news carried out by a cyber media must also be done by other cyber media that cite news from the corrected cyber media;
3) Media that disseminates news from a cyber media and does not make corrections to the news as carried out by the cyber media owner and / or the news maker, is fully responsible for all legal consequences of the uncorrected news.
e. In accordance with the Press Law, cyber media that does not serve the right of reply may be subject to a maximum criminal sanction of Rp.500,000,000 (five hundred million rupiah).
5. Revocation of News
a. News that has been published cannot be revoked due to reasons of censorship from outside editors, except for issues related to racial intolerance, decency, children's future, traumatic experience of the victim or based on other special considerations determined by the Press Council.
b. Other cyber media must follow the revocation of news quotes from origin media that have been revoked.
c. Revocation of news must be accompanied by reasons for revocation and announced to the public.
6. Advertising
a. Cyber media must distinguish clearly between news products and advertisements.
b. Every news / article / content which is an advertisement and / or paid content must include 'advertorial', 'advertisement', 'ads', 'sponsored', or other words that explain that the news / article / content is an advertisement.
7. Copyright
Cyber media must respect copyright as regulated in applicable laws and regulations.
8. Inclusion of the Guidelines
Cyber media must include the Guidelines for News Coverage of this Cyber Media clearly and clearly.
9. Dispute
The final assessment of the dispute regarding the implementation of the Guidelines for Media News Coverage was settled by the Press Council.
Samboja, Thursday, February 3, 2012
(This guideline was signed by the Press Council and the press community in Samboja, February 3, 2012).
SK.MENKEH & HAM RI C-484.HT.03.01-th.03-INFINITE.SK.PSPN 2099/ORG/PEN/13.
SIUP : 503/10764.4/436.6.11/2013-INFINITE
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