Democrats and Dictators: Southeast Asia's Uneven Information Landscape
In: Development dialogue, Heft 1, S. 22-36
ISSN: 0345-2328
In 2001, the Philippine Center for investigative Journalism (PCIJ) & the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) published a study of eight countries in the region, titled The Right to Know: Access to Information in Southeast Asia. The book considers the ways in which the changes that have swept across Southeast Asia during the past 20 years have affected information access. In particular it examines laws that guarantee or restrict access, the political & social environments in which information is given out or withheld, & the state of the media. Against the background of these dramatic political changes in the region, this article examines what the present situation is, country by country. 1 Table. Adapted from the source document.