Controversy On Cartoons

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cooperation between Indonesian and Norwegian political leader to respond on the cartoon controversy. The conference initially held to address freedom of expression and cartoon controversy in 2005-2006. Jyland-Posten a Danish leading newspaper posted ‘the face of Muhammad’ on their newspaper. This publication has resulted to hundreds of people protested, which caused 250 dead and 800 wounded.
Elisabeth Eide a Norwegian journalist emphasized that cartoon controversy is very dangerous. Freedom of expression is influenced by the people, and she further explained that people could create controversies. For cartoon, cartoon may be interpreted in various different contexts for each different people. The key is not to limit the freedom of expression

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