Atta-Aurel Is Not The First Celebrity To Be Protested Because Of His Application To Be Broadcast On TV, Where Has KPI Been?

Aurel Hermansyah and Atta Halilintar (Photo: IG @attahalilintar)

JAKARTA - The application of Atta Halilintar and Aurel Hermansyah was broadcast live on a private TV, on Saturday, March 13. After the application, the process of application, siraman, recitation to the marriage contract of the two celebrities will be broadcast from March 13 to April 4, mostly live broadcasts.

Protests came after the application procession was broadcast live. The use of public broadcasts to broadcast private and group interests is said to injure the educational function of broadcast media. The National Broadcasting Reform Commission (KNRP) stated its stance against the plan of all broadcasts that did not represent the public interest at large even though they used publicly owned frequencies.

The KNRP regrets that KPI does not want to act in accordance with Article 11 of the Broadcasting Conduct Guidelines, which reads "Broadcasting institutions are obliged to pay attention to benefit and protection for the public interest" and Article 13 Paragraph 2 Broadcast Program Standards which state, "Broadcast programs on personal life issues must not become material displayed and / or presented in the entire contents of the agenda, except for the public interest. "

The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI), through the KPI Coordinator for Supervision of Broadcast Content, Mimah Susanti, explained that all broadcast programs by broadcasting institutions, in this case television stations, must refer to existing regulations. Broadcasting code of conduct ethics regulates the obligations of broadcasting institutions to prioritize the public interest in broadcasting broadcast programs. Broadcast programs must also be used for the public interest.

"So all broadcasting programs broadcast on television must consider these benefits," said Mimah when contacted by VOI, Sunday, March 14. Unfortunately, the KPI votes have never actually been considered by the TV station owner. KPI seems to be a toothless tiger when faced with TV decisions that want to pursue ratings.

Why? Because live broadcasting of celebrity weddings has started since 2001. 20 years ago, Eko Patrio's marriage to Viona Rosalina was broadcast live on the Indonesian Education Television (TPI) which has now changed to MNC TV. The high enthusiasm of the public to see this celebrity marriage can be seen from the KPI decision to displace the big match broadcast of the English league which brought Liverpool and Manchester United together.

Indeed, at that time the KPI was not yet born. It was only in 2002 that the KPI was formed. However, the live broadcast of celebrity weddings keeps repeating itself. In 2008. Bunga Citra Lestari's wedding - Ashraf Sinclair was also broadcast live. Then there was the marriage of Andhika Pratama and Ussy Sulistyowati, Anang Hermansyah - Ashanty, Raffi Ahmad - Nagita Slavina, Vicky Prasetyo - Angle Lelga, most recently Sule - Nathalie Holscher, all broadcast live.

Despite the protests, the KPI seems unable to prohibit television stations from broadcasting celebrity weddings live. Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) Mulyo Hadi Purnomo said that his party had so far given three sanctions in connection with live wedding broadcasts. However, the sanctions given are only in the form of administrative sanctions, as stipulated in Article 36 of the Law and the Broadcasting Code of Conduct and Broadcast Program Standards (P3-SPS).

"If you are asked why it is still appearing, then you will ask (the TV station), because the sanctions that can be given by the Law and P3-SPS are administrative sanctions. So if we want to go further than that, it is not possible, because the laws and regulations are like that, "," said Mulyo as quoted from Kompas.

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The fact is, celebrity wedding broadcasts are indeed attracting viewers. For example, Raffi and Nagita's wedding broadcasts can reach a rating of 5.8 and a total share of 27.8 percent. That figure beat the live broadcast rating of Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kala's inauguration in 2014.

KPI said that television stations choose to keep broadcasting the program, usually because they are after ratings, especially when an artist's marriage has a large number of followers. "We hope the public will just boycott shows like that. If people then boycott all of them and don't want to watch them, the rating will drop, tomorrow maybe there will be no more," said Hadi.

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