INDONESIA: Indonesian radio wins King Baudouin prize

Jakarta-based KBR68H is the first news agency to receive the prize for overseeing "the democratic process through radio"

The Jakarta Post
Sunday, May 10, 2009

INDONESIA --- Jakarta-based radio news agency KBR68H is to receive the 2008-2009 King Baudouin International Development Prize in Belgium on May 19.

"KBR68H is the first news media in the world to receive the prize. We are proud to be selected," said Santoso, KBR68H's executive director.

The representative of KBR68H, set up in 1999, will attend a special ceremony and receive a cash prize of 150,000 euros from the biannual award which started in 1980.

"What has been done by KBR68H can be a model for other countries, which is the public initiative to actively oversee the democratic process through radio," said Marc Trenteseau, the Belgium Ambassador to Indonesia.

Date Posted: 5/10/2009