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Kardopa Group has been an affiliate with VOA for over 20 years. So it’s like having a family. When you lose a family, it’s a sad thing. VOA is, first, trustworthy. Second, the news that they deliver is neutral, is balanced. They deliver the factual without attacking, you know, one side or the other side.
Isn’t it, that’s supposed to be, information delivered to people, you know, openly? But I don’t know, it makes me thinking, what’s going on, why they close VOA? Is it something that, behind the scenes that, American government are trying to hide or what?
When you promote on one side about human rights, but on the other side you’re cutting that freedom of speech, you’re cutting VOA to do — the way that I see it, [VOA] is [doing] the noble way, their noble job to deliver the news to the people — isn’t that the opposite of what you’re doing?
I learned so much from when I was young, you know, about the situation and, you know, the lifestyle, social things, so many things about America, and I hope if VOA can continue, the next generations can get the same experience as I am.
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Esther is managing director of business development at Kordopa Group, owner of VOA partner station Radio Kordopa in Indonesia. VOA's Indonesian Service partnered with more than 500 media outlets across Indonesia before it was silenced.