Crime news on TV ruin tourism sector in Indonesia

"The private television stations do not realize that TV stations in Singapore and Malaysia had been relaying the crime news in Indonesia," he said, adding that such news release left a bad impression on the security situation in Indonesia.

Making a comparison, Iqbal said that Thailand is always considered to be a safe place, despite the coup and other violent happenings there, because the local press did not report such negative news about the situation in that country.