Suharto’s Information Minister Harmoko (left) may not seem like any journalist’s hero.
But he has the type of talents that only another Information Minister, and one from a neighboring country, could love.
It turns out that Malaysian Information Minister Zainudin Maidin (right) admires Pos Kota and Harmoko for being light years ahead of everyone else in their vision of journalism.Difficult to believe? Truth is stranger than fiction and for a full-blown account of this tale of admiration and neighborly awe go to the link below for a good read.
It’ll be only a matter of time before Pos Kota joins Rasa Sayang and the Angklung as coveted items by the northern neighbor.
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During the recent ‘Evening With the Media’ I spoke at some length about the Indonesian newspaper Pos Kota and their highly innovative layout and how they broke all the accepted rules of presentation in order to forge their own unique identity.
Their decision to cram the front page with snippets of all the important news contained within their pages is still considered cutting edge today as many newspapers are still adhering to the traditional rules of layout which gives room to just a few main pieces.
I mentioned Pos Kota and their brave departure with the rules because they took the initiative to free themselves of convention and I felt that this would be a good encouragement for the local Media to reinvent themselves as they face the assault of citizen journalism, blogging and online news portals.
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