There's been a major thing (finally) going on with where I work. After five months of publishing, the paper's caught the attention of this country. When I say this country, I mean its high-ranked officials and the police.
Well, of course there was that Spiderman stunt fiasco on the launching day, but I guess that shouldn't count.
For the past three days, it's been all about questions in the office. Are we facing a lawsuit? Are we protected by the Press Law? Is our chief gonna be arrested? Is our reporter friend? Is the paper gonna be closed?
The last question may have just come out from my head.
All police interrogation aside, I didn't think writing a story about some legislative candidate alleged of buying votes in a small town would cause such problem.
Except, of course, the candidate happens to be a son of the country's top man.
Last night, East Java police named Jakarta Globe as a suspect of defamation in the case. But this morning, a text from our reporter there said we had been removed from the suspect list.
This is getting interesting because little me, a newbie in this world, have never experienced something like this before. In a way, now our paper will get some sort of recognition.
The original story has been removed from the web site, but here's a follow-up.
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