The Jakarta Post | Fri, 12/05/2008 11:41 AM | People
JP/J. Adiguna
Jakarta: Senior actor and director Dedy Mizwar says that in order to improve the quality of TV programs the country needs more than one rating institution.
"The AGB Nielsen (rating system) has become like a god to all TV stations. There is no democracy in the media industry because we only have one window to view TV programs," Dedy told The Jakarta Post on the sidelines of the launch of a public rating survey on Wednesday.
The 53-year-old, who is also the chairman of the National Film Advisory Body, questioned why no local company was willing to invest in the business.
"Why doesn't (Indonesia) establish its own ratings company? Why should everything be supplied by foreign companies? There are many investors for the media industry in this country but maybe they just don't care (about TV rating)," said the man who has won five Indonesian Film Festival awards since 1986.
Dedy said the country needed more TV-watch organizations and more than one rating institution as the censorship system was ineffective.
"If an institution is the one and only source ... how can we know if they are manipulating (the system)," he said. -- JP/Matheos V. Messakh
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