University of Indonesia political expert Rocky Gerung says the media needs to discipline itself to maintain the integrity of democracy in the election, by highlighting important substantive issues instead of cheap sensationalist ones. “The media must ignore issues that are counterproductive,” he told The Jakarta Post on Monday. “If any presidential campaign team manages to lure the media into featuring sensationalist and gossip-filled issues, then the media will lose and degrade its integr... [Read Post]