Balibo Australian movie – Poor mindset
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THE producer-director of the Australian movie Balibo has said he is surprised and disappointed that the Government in Jakarta has banned his film from screening in Indonesia.
”I don’t know why I felt this way, but I’d been optimistic that it would play,” Robert Connolly said. ”You hope in the new era of Indonesian democracy, political censorship may have been tempered.”
His highly-acclaimed tale about the deaths of six Australian journalists during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 was due to be screened to a private session of the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club on Tuesday night. It was also slated to screen at the Jakarta International Film Festival on December 6 and 10.
But shortly before Tuesday night’s screening, the JFCC received word from the film festival that Indonesia’s censorship board had refused to classify the film, making it illegal to screen it in public.
The JFCC sought legal advice, and was informed that screening the film would expose individuals to the risk of arrest. After about 90 minutes of deliberation, the journalists voted narrowly against proceeding.
”It came down to the JFCC being a very small organisation without any funds, and the fact it would be up to a small number of people to carry the can if they were charged,” said Geoff Thompson, the ABC’s Indonesia correspondent.
The film has now been dropped from the Jakarta film festival.
”It’s a great pity for those people at the Jakarta film festival who’ve championed it,” said Robert Connolly.
According to Jill Jolliffe, whose book Cover-Up inspired the movie, the Government’s decision comes as a disappointment but not a surprise. ”This heavy-handed attitude isn’t in line with those more liberal sounds we heard coming from [Indonesian President] Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,” she said from Dili.
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