Correction and Right of Reply Policy 

The Kabar News ensures accuracy, impartiality, transparency, and accountability throughout its editorial process. If we learn of a significant factual inaccuracy, we will review the matter and correct the public information as promptly and as clearly as is practical.

This policy explains how readers, sources and others affected by content published on TheKabarNews.com can request a correction, clarification or right of reply.

Accuracy Guarantee

We are very careful to verify facts before reporting them. The rumors spread fast. Sources don’t always tell the whole story. The truth can change.

When someone raises a credible concern, the editorial team reviews the original reporting, supporting documents, recordings, source material, and any additional information the complainant provides.

We do not dismiss an error simply because no one intended to make it.

What can be fixed?

The published content contains the following significant factual inaccuracy that requires correction:

• Name, age, status, or identity of any person
• A date, place, person, quote or chronology.
• Status of a person at law.
• Assignment of sentences.
• A photo, caption, or visual identifier.
• We also prohibit deleting information when doing so materially changes the document’s meaning or misleads readers.
• A headline or summary misleads readers when the evidence presented does not support its factual claims.
• A statement of fact that is not substantiated by the evidence presented.

To criticize or interpret is not automatically a mistake of fact; to have a different point of view is not automatically a mistake of fact. The Kabar News may provide clarification where additional context is material to the reader.

Kinds of Editorial Changes

The Kabar News may do one or more of the following activities, as relevant to the nature of the issue:

Correction: We correct significant factual inaccuracies, update the article, and may add an editor’s note explaining the error and how we addressed it.

Explanation: Published information need not be false but may be incomplete, ambiguous or reasonably misinterpreted. Clarification is given.

Edit: Updated: Update: Developing story confirmed with new info added. That doesn’t imply the original report was wrong, though.

Editor’s note: An editor’s note may explain an important editorial decision, correction, disagreement or change that affects the integrity of the original story.

Withdrawal or retraction

In principle, The Kabar News may retract or remove an article if it contains fundamentally false information, violates the law or journalistic ethics, or creates a serious and unjustifiable risk of harm.

We will not routinely refuse to report because it is adverse or embarrassing or out of date.

Corrections Magazine:

Any changes in materials should be obvious and understandable for the reader. A rectification notification shall, where applicable:
(At the end of the article or in the concerned article).See what information was wrong.

2. Correct the data. -> Date revised. -> Link to related subsequent coverage, if applicable.

When these materials contain errors, The Kabar News may correct headlines, social media posts, newsletters, photographs, or videos on the platforms where it published them.

We may correct minor spelling, punctuation, grammar, formatting, or typographical errors without issuing a formal correction notice when the changes do not alter the article’s substance.

The Right to Reply

The right of reply allows a person or organization directly affected by inaccurate or damaging reporting to provide a factual response.

The Kabar News respects the right of reply according to Law No. 40 of 1999 on the Press, the Journalistic Code of Ethics, and the Cyber Media Reporting Guidelines of the Indonesian Press Council.

A right of reply file shall:

• Name the article in question and website.

• Identify the statement being challenged.
• Explain why the statement is unfair or incorrect.
• Provide supporting information or papers if available.
• Focus on the core of the disagreement.
  Contact: Kusnadi Assaini | Managing Editor | Pontianak, West Kalimantan | kusnadi.assaini@gmail.com or redaksi@thekabarnews.com | 0858-1011-8889

A right of reply is not an opportunity to issue threats, promotional comment, political messaging not relevant to the subject matter, personal insults, discriminatory content or baseless claims.

Editing the Right to Respond

The editorial team has the right to edit a right of reply statement for length, clarity, grammar, legal and relevant. We shall not purposefully alter its essential meaning.

If significant editing is required before publication, the editorial team may contact the submitter.

– If approved, the right of reaction may be published:

• (As originally published) (As a link or update to an editor’s note)

• Separate article, link in original report.
• Any other system of proportionality agreed by the Parties.

Requesting Action

Requests for correction, clarification and right of reply should be sent to:

Email: redaksi@thekabarnews.com
Publisher : PT Satu Hati Indonesia Place of Publication : Pontianak, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia Subject : Correction or Right to Reply

Please hand out:

1. Name and contact details.
2. The organization you are representing, if any.
3. Title of Article, URL.
4. Publication Date.
5. The specific information requested.
6. Your suggested adjustment or reply.
7. Supporting Documents or Relevant Evidence .

We will process any personal data you provide to us for verification purposes in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Editorial Review

A request does not constitute proof that the published information is wrong. The editorial team independently reviews the evidence and may contact the requester, journalist, editor, or other relevant sources.

When The Kabar News is able to say no to a request:

• The information published must be correct.
• This is not a question of fact but a request for an opinion.
• The requester did not identify the content in dispute.
• The response proposed is not irrelevant, unreasonable, unlawful or harsh.
• The request is an attempt to hide material that is nonetheless of public importance.

When appropriate, the editing staff will explain their choice to the requester.

Complaints to the Press Council of Indonesia

In the event journalists are unable to solve a conflict quickly, the parties can go to the complaint and mediation facilities of the Indonesian Press Council (Dewan Pers).

The Kabar News will participate in good faith in a valid dispute settlement method and will abide by binding obligations or recommendations applicable under Indonesian press legislation.

July 2026 Revision