Annual renewal of printing license should be abolished

Dompok: Review yearly press permits

The time has come for the Government to consider doing away with the annual renewal of the printing licence for the print media, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Bernard Dompok.

Instead of renewing it annually, it could be renewed every five years or so, he said.

“This is, in fact, the very essence of democracy,” he said during a United Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) gathering with the media yesterday.

Dompok, who is Upko president, said the country could not have democracy without the contribution of the media. He citied Indonesia as an example of a country practicing freedom of the press whereby the print media was not required to apply for a printing permit.

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