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Article: ASIA: COMMUNITY RADIO VOICES GET LOUDER, SO GOVERNMENTS STEP IN
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- December 29, 2003
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Roxanne Toh
Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-29-2003
BANGKOK, Dec. 26 (IPS/GIN) -- The voice of community radio is
getting louder across Asia, but so is the interference coming from
governments that are wary about its growing strength.
In recent years, political change in countries like Indonesia
and Thailand has given local communities more room to make use of
state-controlled frequencies and to gain more space in an
increasingly commercial media environment.
Community radio ventures have thus mushroomed, often
broadcasting from homemade transmitters and makeshift venues like
unlit toilet cubicles to abandoned spaces.
In Indonesia, the number of community radio stations has risen
to ...