TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA - Police Headquarters supports eradication of online media or abusive journalists.

Head of the Police Public Relations Division Insp. Gen. Mohammad Iqbal said that his party offered a number of options to eradicate these abusive journalists.

"I recommend the first embryo that we have to manage, the legal basis in the Press Law is that there is a rule of law approach that journalists are people who make press products in accordance with norms and norms," ​​said Iqbal, in the discussion on 'Eradicating Abal-Abal Journalists' at the Council Building Press, Jl Kebon Sirih, Central Jakarta, Monday (02/11/2019).

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He said if the legal process must be enforced, especially with the requirement that the mass media must have a legal entity.

The two-star general said that up to now there are 43 thousand online media that are not legal entities. "There are legal processes according to existing norms, we must be orderly, but the approach is persuasive. Because they can be because the regulation is not strong, they become victims," ​​he said.

In this case, the National Police encouraged the Ministry of Communication and Information and the Press Council to order that the journalist or press profession should not be harmed.

The former East Java Regional Police Deputy explained the method by making a MoU once a month. "We can check online, which IP address, location, check the data, if there is none, it must be legally enforceable. But there is still a socialization factor warning 1, 2, 3, (continued) subpoena and take down," said Iqbal. 

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