{"id":6323,"date":"2013-04-24T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2013-04-24T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:01:30","slug":"al-jazeera-radio-free-sarawak-offers-alternative-voice-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/al-jazeera-radio-free-sarawak-offers-alternative-voice-ahead-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera: Radio Free Sarawak offers alternative voice ahead of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clandestine station, <a title=\"Other posts with Radio Free Sarawak\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/radio-free-sarawak\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Free Sarawak<\/a>, offers an alternative voice in Malaysia\u00a0ahead of elections next week. For those living in remote jungle communities&#8211;places where the Internet is not readily available&#8211;Radio Free Sarawak can be heard on shortwave radio.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Florence Looi reports from a village in Sarawak:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mvcIJ_wad94\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Added to other posts tagged: <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/why-shortwave-radio\" title=\"check out other posts\" target=\"_blank\">Why Shortwave Radio?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clandestine station, Radio Free Sarawak, offers an alternative voice in Malaysia\u00a0ahead of elections next week. For those living in remote jungle communities&#8211;places where the Internet is not readily available&#8211;Radio Free Sarawak can be heard on shortwave radio. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Florence Looi reports from a village in Sarawak: Added to other posts tagged: Why Shortwave Radio?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,869,3,304,1167],"tags":[1753,870,237,333,4082,84],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-clandestine","category-news","category-videos","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-al-jazeera","tag-clandestine-radio","tag-clandestine-stations","tag-radio-free-sarawak","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1DZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6460,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/radio-free-sarawak-takes-a-break\/","url_meta":{"origin":6323,"position":0},"title":"Radio Free Sarawak takes a break","author":"Thomas","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The clandestine station Radio Free Sarawak--who we most recently mentioned in connection with the Malaysian elections--has announced that they are going off the air. \u00a0There is a note of finality in their announcement (below), yet they do leave some ambiguity by declaring, \"We will be taking a break until further\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RadioFreeSarawak","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RadioFreeSarawak.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7024,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/radio-free-sarawak-is-back-on-the-air\/","url_meta":{"origin":6323,"position":1},"title":"Radio Free Sarawak is back on the air!","author":"Thomas","date":"August 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Rob Wagner's blog, The Mount Evelyn DX Report, I just learned that the clandestine station, Radio Free Sarawak, is back on the air after declaring a break on May 8, 2013 (see our previous post). 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