SoSCoM presented “Regulation Examples from the World Media”
The Secretariat of State of the Council of Ministers organized, last Thursday, April 14, in Díli, at Hotel Arbiru, a workshop with the title “Regulation Examples from the World Media”.
The workshop was intended for media professionals and presented some examples of mass media communication regulations from countries such as Indonesia, Portugal, Australia, Philippines, Brazil and New Zealand.
In his intervention, the Secretary of State for Energy Policy, Avelino Coelho, substituting the Secretary of State of the Council of Ministers, said that “for a better media regulation we need to take into account the three references that are going to be discussed in this workshop. In the first place, self-regulation, or in other words, the journalists themselves do their own regulation. In the second place co-regulation, which means that the State, or Government, and the journalists, cooperate to draft the mass media communication regulation of activities. And, in third place and last, the regulation, meaning when the State or the Government have the competence to create the regulation for mass media communication activities”.
During the day, and after a profound discussion among the professionals a conclusion was reached as to form a team composed by: Mouzinho Lopes, Otélio Ote, Salvador Ximanes, Prezado Ximanes, Suzana Cardoso and Sofia Calado. This team has the objective of analysing the subsidiary Indonesia Law about mass media communication (Law N.o 40/1999) and the Mass Media Communication Draft Law, that is at this point in the National Parliament’s agenda.
Present at the workshop were the Secretary of State for Energy Policy, Avelino Coelho, the SoSCoM Director General Victor Maia, the SoSCoM Legal Adviser for Mass Communication, Sofia Calado, the AJTL President, Virgílio Guterres, the Timor-Leste Press Club President, Paulino Quintas, the Timor-Leste Journalists Syndicate President, Otélio Ote, a representative from TILPA, Suzana Cardoso, a representative from Community Radios Association, Prezado Ximenes, the RTTL Council of Administration President interim, Expedito Dias Ximenes, the owner of the company STL, Salvador Ximenes and the owner of the National Media Group, Jorge Serrano, among others.
