<![CDATA[Indonesian ensure everyone has an equal footing in the law (equality before the law). This is confirmed in the state constitution that says that Indonesia is a constitutional state (recht state) and is run entirely under the Act. Print mass media is one means to meet the public’s right to know and develop public opinion, with appropriate information menyamaikan, accurate and true. the role of journalists is very important in meeting the right people and at the time of carrying out the work or the profession was certainly should get legal protection, as stated in article 8 of the law number 40 of 1999 concerning the press. Where once journalists desperately need legal protection from work so when the duty was not being chased or overshadowed by the fear of threat, terror, and violence. The form of legal safeguards provided by the print media company to journalists is to the existence of the attorneys for the law of rock journalists accompany the affected cases was accompanied at the time either in court or outside the court. But in addition to providing legal protection for journalists, there is no sanction against journalists who carried stories that do not fit as well as a breach of journalistic ethics. Keywords: Legal Protection, Journalists and Journalistic Ethics]]>
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