Censorship: Indonesian magazine critical of police intercepted
The Indonesian political magazine Tempo has achieved an unexpected success with an in-depth investigative report on police corruption: Almost all 30,000 copies of the new weekly edition were sold within minutes on Monday - even before they reached the newsstands.
Tempo reported this on its website. Mysteriously, the buyers looked like plainclothes police officers, the magazine further reported, citing several wholesalers who literally had the issues snatched out of their hands at dawn. In view of the obvious interest in the story, Tempo has now announced that it will reprint the issue.
A police spokesman assured the magazine on Monday that he knew nothing about the unusual run on the magazine. Following the recent discovery of the equivalent of more than ten million francs in the bank account of a civil servant, Tempo had collected information on other well-filled bank accounts of police officers for its cover story. According to Transparency International, Indonesia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world - and the Indonesian police force is one of the most corrupt institutions in the country.
A police spokesman assured the magazine on Monday that he knew nothing about the unusual run on the magazine. Following the recent discovery of the equivalent of more than ten million francs in the bank account of a civil servant, Tempo had collected information on other well-filled bank accounts of police officers for its cover story. According to Transparency International, Indonesia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world - and the Indonesian police force is one of the most corrupt institutions in the country.
