ABSTRACT
Indonesia’s Press Council holds outstanding powers to draft and ratify regulations about media accountability, to arbitrate complaints against journalists, to cultivate media professionalism, and to safeguard press freedom. The Press Council’s role as a lynchpin for community and professional regulation of journalism stems from political turbulence in the late twentieth century, when there was substantive emphasis on protecting journalism from external interference. Outside interference remains possible, however, due to a patchwork of conflicting laws that can be used against journalists.
