By: Ainur Rohmah
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Indonesia, which because the fall in 1998 of the strongman Suharto has functioned as a relative beacon of press freedom and democracy in Southeast Asia, may lose a few of each through legal guidelines now being quietly debated in closed conferences within the Home of Representatives, representatives of reform organizations say. The laws below deliberati…