Asia’s doors open only very slightly to community radio

AMARC Asia-Pacific – http://asiapacific.amarc.org/ – is part of an international non-governmental organisation serving the community radio movement, with almost 3,000 members and associates in 110 countries. The goal of the “Association mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaires (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC) is to "support and contribute to the development of community and participatory radio along the principles of solidarity and international cooperation". "AMARC Asia-Pacific was launched in February 2003 by the global meeting, AMARC 8, in Kathmandu. That meeting decided to officially establish AMARC Asia-Pacific," says Suman Basnet (37), AMARC Asia-Pacific's regional coordinator, based in Kathmandu. Adds Basnet, a former television man and documentary filmmaker himself: "It took us all this time till November 2005 to meet in Jakarta and do a regional assembly and elect the first official board of the region." AMARC's Asia-Pacific president is the Bangalore-based Ashish Sen, whose non-governmental organisation, called VOICES, now an APC member, has long been associated with the campaign for community radio in India. (See https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india, a mailing list that has been pressing for this). Source: APC.

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