Indonesian Court Gives Independent Radio Director Suspended Sentence

In 2007 the Chinese Embassy demanded Radio Erabaru be shut down. On Tuesday an Indonesian court found that station’s director guilty of administrative violations.
Indonesian Court Gives Independent Radio Director Suspended Sentence
FEARLESS: Gatot Machali helms the microphone at Radio Erabaru's small studio in Batam, Indonesia. He is facing six years in prison for broadcasting, after the Chinese regime put diplomatic pressure on Indonesian authorities. Gatot Machali Courtesy of Gatot Machali
Matthew Robertson
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Gatot Machali at the microphone at Radio Erabaru's small studio in Batam, Indonesia. (Courtesy of Radio Erabaru)
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.