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ACTIVITIES Investigative Journalism Course for Southeast Asian Journalists THE Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) are now accepting applications for this year's "Investigative Journalism Course for Southeast Asian Journalists" to be held in Cambodia. The course is scheduled
on July 28 - Aug 1, 2004. There will be two slots for the Philippines,
and six slots each for Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia. Applicants
should be community print or broadcast journalists with at least 3-year
full-time work experience. SEAPA Secretariat You may also send your applications via email to seapa@seapabkk.org For journalists in Thailand, you may also send applications to the Thai Journalists Association at reporter@inet.co.th Deadline for submission is July 12.
Ongoing Activities : June 2 - July 7,
2004 SEAPA
monitors conditions for the press in Southeast Asia and is engaged in
dialogue with journalists throughout the region. In addition, SEAPA has
undertaken a number of public initiatives since its founding.
Press
Release issued after the SEAPA founding conference SEAPA
FOUNDED SEAPA
was founded on November 8, 1998 in Bangkok. Southeast
Asian Press Alliance Formed BANGKOK -- Delegates meeting in Bangkok announced the formation of an alliance to support and promote press freedom in the region on Sunday. Twenty-five representatives from five independent journalists' organizations in three countries--the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia--launched a campaign on behalf of a free press in Southeast Asia through the establishment of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA). The alliance will set up a secretariat in Bangkok next year. The secretariat will monitor attacks on journalists and threats to the press in Southeast Asia. The alliance will also encourage governments in Southeast Asia to reform repressive media laws and relax restrictions on the press. A steering committee was formed to direct the new alliance. Steering committee members were drawn from the Reporter's Association of Thailand (RAT), the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) of the Philippines, the Jakarta-based Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) and the Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information (ISAI), which is also based in Indonesia. The alliance is meant to be inclusive of independent journalistic organizations in the region and was formed in response to the growth of press freedom in the three countries initially involved. Delegates affirmed their commitment to support efforts by journalists in neighboring countries to establish a free press. "This is a landmark development in the history of the Southeast Asian press," said Kavi Chongkittavorn, a member of the six-member steering committee and the Executive Editor of the Nation newspaper in Bangkok. "We journalists have to be able to defend ourselves and help our Asian colleagues." The alliance grew out of a two-day seminar on press freedom in Southeast Asia, hosted by the Reporter's Association of Thailand in conjunction with the World Press Freedom Committee and the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). "We support your efforts and applaud this endeavor," said James Ottaway, the chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee. Delegates attending the meeting said it was the first time that regional press freedom organizations have banded together to promote Southeast Asian concerns. BOARD
NAMED, CHAIR ELECTED SEAPA
held its first board meeting and elected a chairman May 22-23, 1998. PRESS GROUP TO MONITOR ABUSES Thai
Newspaper Editor is First Chairman of Regional Free Press Alliance BANGKOK -- A senior Thai newspaper editor was named the first chairman of the newly formed Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) on Saturday as the group announced plans to begin monitoring conditions for working journalists in the region from an office in Bangkok. The alliance said it would develop an information network among the ten countries of southeast Asia to research attacks on journalists and combat abuses against the press. "It is time for Asian journalists to work together to build press freedom," said the group's new chairman, Kavi Chongkittavorn, the executive editor of the Nation newspaper, an English-language daily in Bangkok. "It is up to us to defend ourselves from attacks and threat." Meeting for the first time since its formation at a conference in Bangkok last November, SEAPA's Board of Directors said that in addition to an information network, the group would undertake research on press laws, access to information and journalism ethics with an eye toward expanding the horizons of press freedom in the region. Comprised of independent press advocacy groups from the three "free press" countries of southeast Asia - the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia - SEAPA intends to broaden its membership as greater openness takes hold in the region. "In the meantime, we will defend the gains the press has made, especially in Indonesia," said Kavi, "but our experience has been that it is never easy to maintain freedom." In its discussions, the group emphasized the fragile nature of the newly won freedom in Indonesia, where the press became free almost overnight with the resignation of President Suharto last May. "But there are still no legal guarantees and we have to be vigilant," said board member Lukas Luwarso, the chairman of the Alliance of Independent Journalists, an Indonesian press association. "We cannot have a democracy without a free press." SEAPA was formed last year in response to calls for greater openness and transparency in the wake of the regional economic crisis as critics assailed government policies that hid the scope of corruption and economic mismanagement from the press and public. The members of SEAPA also announced plans to form a Board of Advisors composed of senior journalists in the region and to work cooperatively with other organizations with similar goals. The Board meeting in Bangkok was attended by Marilyn Greene, the executive director of the World Press Freedom Committee. Veteran journalist A. Lin Neumann, who serves as Asian regional consultant to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, will work as an advisor to SEAPA based in Bangkok. The members of the alliance are the Reporter's Association of Thailand; the Alliance of Independent Journalists (Indonesia); the Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information (Indonesia); the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (Philippines); and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. "Together, this alliance represents many of the most independent journalists in our region," said Kavi. "Our job will be to make their numbers grow." SEAPA-SUPPORTED
WEBSITE LAUNCHED IN MALAYSIA Malaysiakini.com, (www.malaysiakini.com) an independent internet newspaper project supported by SEAPA, was launched and quickly became a staple source of news on Malaysia. Featuring professional news coverage, investigative journalism, analysis and commentary the site is a significant step forward for the development of a free press in Malaysia.. Its vision is to use the Internet to provide free and fair news to the Malaysian public and to set new standards in journalism. It is an on-line newspaper providing the Malaysian public with latest news on critical issues in a fair and independent manner, thereby challenging the views of the government-dominated mainstream media. Since its launch, the site has gained tremendous popularity, attracting over 100,000 readers a day (that is over a million "hits" a day), surpassing first year projections by more than 500% The site clocks close to 2.5 million pageviews a month and is among the top three sites in Malaysia. BUSINESS
JOURNALISM IN TRANSITION: A Training Seminar in Cooperation with the World
Bank Institute "East Asian Economics: Crisis and Recovery" SEAPA and the World Bank Institute conducted a training seminar in Hua Hin, Thailand . entitled "East Asian Economics: Crisis and Recovery" involving journalists from the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. The interactive seminar allowed senior business journalists from the three countries to explore issues arising from the Asian economic crisis and to hone their skills in covering economic topics. BUILDING
AN INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN EAST TIMOR: CONSULTATION WITH UNESCO "Rebuilding East Timor's Media: The Task Ahead" SEAPA and UNESCO jointly sponsored a meeting in Bangkok of donor agencies, UN officials and press NGOs to discuss the future of the media in East Timor. The two-day meeting discussed the findings of a UNESCO mission on media in East Timor and planed strategies for the future. The rampage by pro-Indonesia militia groups in East Timor after the August 30 referendum resulted in the destruction of virtually all media infrastructure in the country. The meeting was an effort to share information and focus attention on the need for coordinated efforts to rebuild the East Timor media. Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan addressed the meeting, which was also attended by Alain Modoux, assistant director general for UNESCO's Freedom of Expression and Democracy program, and Manuel de Almeida, deputy spokesperson for the UN secretary-general in charge of media and information activities in East Timor. ACCESS
TO INFORMATION FORUM SEAPA in cooperation with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, sponsored a forum in Jakarta on access to information in Southeast Asia The forum brought together leading journalists in the region to examine the legal and social environments that promote or hinder information access. The forum kicked off a year-long SEAPA project to document and raise awareness about the state of information access in Southeast Asia. The UNDP-funded project will result in a book and a series of forums on Access to Information issues in the region. SEAPA-JAKARTA
OFFICE LAUNCHED A cocktail reception was held at the Santika Hotel in Jakarta to celebrate the opening of SEAPA's office in Jakarta. Given the continuing turmoil in Indonesia and the risks faced by many journalists in doing their jobs, SEAPA opened an office dedicated to monitoring the rights of journalists and protecting the working press in Indonesia. SEAPA-Jakarta's Country Director is Lukas Luwarso, the former chairperson of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) . SEAPA members AJI and ISAI jointly oversee the office, which will issue alerts and conduct studies on press conditions in Indonesia. TRAINING
WORKSHOP WITH IFEX In cooperation with the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), SEAPA brought together journalists from Indonesia and Thailand for a meeting in Jakarta to discuss techniques for writing alerts and documenting cases of attacks against the press. The workshop is part of SEAPA's drive to build a regional information network on press freedom. WORLD
PRESS FREEDOM DAY IN INDONESIA SEAPA and UNESCO jointly sponsored a one-day seminar on press freedom conditions in Southeast Asia. President Asbdurrahman Wahid opened the seminar. The evening gala celebration attracted a full-house crowd of some 500 people to the Hotel Menara Peninsula in Jakarta for an evening of musical entertainment. SEAPA JAKARTA organized the event in cooperation with AJI, ISAI and Internews-Jakarta. The press release from the event is below: WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATED IN INDOENSIA President
Abdurrahman Affirms Free Press Commitment JAKARTA- -President Abdurrahman Wahid reaffirmed his government's commitment to protect the right of free expression during ceremonies held to celebrate World Press Freedom Day in Indonesia. "My administration looks with relish on the emergence of a free press," Abdurrahman said in remarks made at the beginning of a conference on Press Freedom in Southeast Asia organized by the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The event in Jakarta, which included speakers from East Timor, Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, was the first time that UNESCO had held a World Press Freedom Day event in Indonesia. Organizers chose Indonesia in recognition of the openness of the Indonesian media since the resignation of former President Suharto in May 1998. "I want to call attention to the fact that the Indonesian press needs protection as well as professionalism," Abdurrahman said. "The government needs to protect the press from the many forces who don't want freedom." Kavi Chongkittavorn, the chairman of SEAPA, congratulated Indonesia for its accomplishments toward the press and called on journalists in the region to work together to spread press freedom beyond the three "free press" countries of Southeast Asia - the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. "In the past, outside assistance was pivotal to highlight the press abuses and any violation of freedom of expression in Southeast Asia," said Kavi, who is also the executive editor of the Nation newspaper in Bangkok. "Now, with growing press freedom in the region, this responsibility has fallen on the regional press." Speakers at the conference noted ongoing severe press censorship in Burma and harsh press licensing laws in Malaysia. In addition, journalists in Indonesia still face frequent physical attacks from angry pressure groups throughout the country. A delegation of East Timorese journalists spoke on the need to develop the press in the former Indonesian territory almost from scratch. Most of the press infrastructure in East Timor was destroyed by the pro-Indonesia militia violence that followed the referendum on independence held in the territory last September. The gathering was the first occasion in which East Timorese journalists have met publicly with their Indonesian colleagues since the referendum. The UNESCO country representative for Indonesia, Professor Stephen Hill, read a United Nations statement on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. "In every society, freedom of the press is essential to transparency, accountability, good governance and the rule of law," the statement said. "It cannot be suppressed without dire consequences for social cohesion and stability." SEAPA, which is an alliance of free press organizations in Southeast Asia, was founded in November 1998. It recently opened an office to protect journalists' rights in Indonesia and it has ongoing projects throughout the region. WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATED IN CAMBODIA Southeast Asian Press Alliance in cooperation with Cambodian journalists’ associations organised a conference to mark World Press Freedom Day in Cambodia on May 3, 2001. The event attended by some 150 journalists representing a large cross section of the print and broadcast media in the country was being held in Cambodia to celebrate progress made toward press freedom in a country that once suffered under the brutal Khmer Rouge. Opening the conference was Khieu Khanarith, Secretary of State for Information in the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Speakers from Cambodia, East Timor, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines later spoke on issues related to the press in the region during the day long event. A joint statement celebrating World Press Freedom Day was issued by SEAPA, the Cambodian Association for the Protection of Journalists, the League of Cambodian Journalists and the Independent Journalists Union. United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organisation and International Freedom of Expression Exchange helped make the event possible. SEAPA , TJA AND IFEX ORGANISED THE FIRST IFEX ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN ASIA. Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Thai Journalists Association and the International Freedom of eXpression Exchange (IFEX) jointly organised the annual meeting of IFEX in Bangkok from June 2-8 to raise awareness of Asian press for the need to network with press worldwide in campaigning for freedom of expression. The week-long meeting featured workshops on free expression issues and a series of internal discussions geared toward IFEX business. The exchange was founded in 1992 as a cooperative information-sharing venture among free expression NGOs. Since its founding it has grown to include more than 50 organizations worldwide. Delegates to the Bangkok meeting came from every continent. WORKSHOP ON INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS IN PHILIPPINES SEAPA in collaboration with Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism organised a workshop on Investigative Reporting for Southeast Asian Journalists” at Clark Field in Pampanga in Philippines from June 10-14, 2001. The workshop was attended by 24 middle-level journalists from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. The sessions covered: the concept of International Relations(IR), the state of IR in Southeast Asia (SEA), interviewing sources, looking for documents, the use of computers for research and reporting, ethical issues for investigative reporters, obstacles to IR in SEA and strategies to overcome these, cross-border reporting and planning and strategizing an investigative report. The aim of the workshop was to introduce the concept of IR and IR techniques. The goal was that at the end of the seminar, the participants would be able to plan and carry out their own investigative reports. The workshop was sponsored by World Bank Institute. A BOOK DESCRIBED THE STATE OF INFORMATION IN SEA LAUNCHED Southeast Asian Press Alliance and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism joinly launched a book that described the state of information access in eight countries in Southeast Asia at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand on December 6, 2001. The book, entitled" The Right to Know: Access to Information in Southeast Asia" examines the state of the media in Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and the obstacles faced by journalists and citizens who wish to obtain public records. The book includes the findings of a cross-country survey that ranked the countries according to their openness. The project was financed by UNDP paragon. May World Press Freedom
Day Celebration in Philippines SEAPA Fellowship Program
in Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia July Workshop on Advanced
Reporting in Malaysia (SEAPA - PCIJ) September Regional Seminar
on Media Self-Regulation in Southeast Asia November Training of Journalism
Trainers in Southeast Asia (SEAPA-PCIJ) May 18-June 26,
2003 July 9-13, 2003 November, 2003 December, 2003
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