Indonesia will limit foreign media to directly broadcast its news to consumers in the country from Feb. 5, Communication and Information Minister Sofyan Djalil said in Jakarta Monday.

Talking to reporters after a meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace, he said that the policy of a short delay of the broadcasting aimed at making the media take responsibility of material that they broadcast.

The minister said that the government impose the rules on news, shows that are against with cultural norms, and sadistic sport event.

"It is not allowed to live broadcasting. The law said that everybody must be responsible to what he or she broadcast. If you publish a news you must be responsible on it. But if it is foreign news who will take the responsibility?" he said.

The minister explained that the news materials of the foreign media must be edited in Indonesia.

"If the BBC or Voice of America cover somewhere, their material come into down link and then they are edited well by up link, then they are published. So there is a policy to delay for few seconds, if there is unsuitable material it can be censored," said Djalil.

The minister has said a mistake has been done by a foreign media of broadcasting about Indonesia.

"It used to happen, the discovery channels said about a colonized province of Indonesia," he said.

Source: Xinhua