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https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/08/Megawati.jpg175275New York, August 1, 2001—In a July 30 letter to Megawati Sukarnoputri, the newly elected president of Indonesia, the Committee to Protect Journalists called on her to preserve and strengthen recent gains in press freedom. CPJ cited reports that Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle may revive the Ministry of Information—a department which, under the…