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No ban on foreign media in Papua - Jakarta

This comes after Reporters Without Borders condemned the Indonesian government for rejecting a recent visa application by French journalist Cyruk Payen.

The journalist visited Papua in mid-2015 and produced a documentary entitled "Forgotten War of the Papuans" which was aired last October.

The Tempo news service in Jakarta reports that the deputy foreign minister Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir said foreign journalists would be asked about the purpose of their visit and who they would be meeting in Papua.

He says there would be no supervision or ban.

Nauru government bans all media visits from country

Last year, the Nauruan government said it was increasing the application fee for journalist visas from AUD 200 ($145) to a non-refundable AUD 8,000 (US$5,821) per person. 

But when Al Jazeera tried to apply, the networks was told “all media application [sic] is not approved”.

For some months, Al Jazeera has been emailing and phoning Nauru about the official process for a correspondent and cameraman to apply to visit the country. Most email messages and phone calls went unanswered.

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Tighter new media rules likely to have impact on West Papua

The director-general of political and general administration at the Home Ministry, Soedarmo, said the new regulation was a follow-up policy drawn up after ministries and state institutions in charge of supervising foreigners in Indonesia, with the Foreign Ministry as the leading institution, agreed that it was important to monitor all activities of foreign journalists in Indonesia.

Media commended for Games coverage

  Sports and Pacific Games Minister Justin Tkatchenko this afternoon congratulated the media for the coverage of the Games period, describing it as one of the best the country had seen.

“The Pacific Games was put throughout the world and the Pacific in a very professional manner

“Congratulations to all those that broadcasted the events of the Pacific Games in a professional manner, the replays, the live events it was fantastic,” he said.

“Let’s see if we can continue with that standard with many more events to come into the future,” Tkatchenko said.