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Media
The number of newspaper and magazines circulating throughout the country at present is approximately twelve million a day. There are 76 dailies, 90 weeklies, 50 fortnightly, 25 weekly magazines, two quarterly magazines, 39 monthly magazines and ten bulletins. There are three English-language dailies in Jakarta. Radio Republik Indonesia, the national radio network has stations throughout the archipelago, with the main station in Jakarta. There are five "Nusantara" coordinating stations, i.e. Medan, Yogyakarta, Banjarmasin, Ujung Pandang and Jayapura besides regional and district stations.
Apart from the state-controlled stations there are almost 900 private stations, commercial and non-commercial. The orbiting communications satellite has made it possible to spread the television network to cover most areas of the country.
Entirely state-controlled, there is one channel run by the government and another one is privately run, although nine provincial stations have some of their own limited programmes. Production of national feature films total more than 450 titles in 1993. There is annual quota for the importation of foreign movies encouraging the growth of the domestic production of feature and documentary films. The shooting of films in Indonesia requires a permit from the Directorate of Film of the Department of Information in Jakarta. Private video cameras carried by tourist may be used freely, except where restrictions apply.
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