BlackBerry Will Be Blocked In Indonesia

BlackBerry Will Be Blocked In Indonesia | FACEON - After the inaugurating a number of Echelon 1 for the Ministry of Communications and Informatics on Friday, January 7th 2011, the minister of Ministry of Communications and Informatics Indonesia (shortly Menkominfo) Tifatul Sembiring again revealed that he plans to block BlackBerry services in Indonesia. The reason for this is companies haven't respected as well the laws and regulations in that country.

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"We ask RIM to respect and obey the laws and regulations in Indonesia," he said in an interview Tifatul with VIVAnews.com, on Sunday, January 9th, 2011.

Suddenly, the plans of blocking BlackBerry services in Indonesia again heat up the atmosphere on the Internet, especially for social networking and microblogging sites like Twitter. The Customer Research In Motion protests the plans of the Minister of Communications and Information Tifatul Sembiring blocks that service.

Tifatul Sembiring plans to block RIM service because it's associated with pornographic content that can still be accessed by users via their BlackBerry phones. Via Twitter account, He againsts the protests and harsh criticism straight in him, commented:

Tifatul Sembiring

"Just for ask, how are you all think if an institution is trying [for the best things] in this country but do not want to follow all the existing rules," tweet Minister Tifatul.

The law that he meant is Law No. 36 of 1999 on Telecommunications, Law No. 11 of 2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions (UU ITE), and Act No. 44 of 2008 on Pornography.

"Please read it slowly Law 44/2008, article 17. Government/local government must prevent the spreading of pornography in society," said Tifatul. "I just run the law, why you called it's a duping. Come on... Change the law, I will run it faithfully," he said.

Since the last Ramadan, the Ministry of Communications have tested the system blocking pornographic content on the Internet that can be accessed through various media that is connected to the Internet.

At that time, there are six largest cellular operator in Indonesia, are controlling almost 87% market internet users ready to do censorship.

That is also supported by the Association of Indonesian Internet Service Provider (APJII) who forces the internet service providers (ISPs) to provide filtered Internet service to ward off porn sites.