Indonesia will ban pornography in April

Posted by Wim Permana on March 31st, 2008 filed in Asia: Indonesia, Culture, Internet, Society, Tech

Muh. Nuh: We will block the porn sites ….

Tomorrow or April 1st, probably is such a historical moment in Indonesian IT milestones since Indonesian government is going to start blocking porn sites (and blogs should be too) which annoying their people.

Prof Ir Mohammad Nuh DEA, Minister of Communication and Information said to Kompas (Bahasa Indonesia version) that he wished this process (blocking) would finished in May this year.

Apparently, this blocking process was not accidentally happen though. There is a technical specific background or reason lies beyond this. So, it is not just a moral issue which count here.

Nuh also added that this action is as a preparation before government launch its special service for high school in Indonesia which magnificently could doubled up Indonesian internet penetration from 25 million to 50 million users (25% out of Indonesian population). Wow, that could make Singaporean and Malaysian become underestimate in term of quantity (20 times bigger than Singapore’s internet penetration).

But how will they do it? Is it possible to block all that adult sites? Even Mr. Nuh seems to be not so optimistic about this. However, there are three levels of solutions which he thought could make this classical problem didn’t get even worse.

Level one; government hopes that people don’t visit all of the (adult or porn) sites. Uppps …. actually, this is the real problem to be solve.

Level two; government will cooperate (I think ‘ask’ is a more appropriate word for this) those high schools or departments to install such a special anti-porn software (Bahasa Indonesia). Nuh’s department will provide this software for free in their site which unfortunately not very good in security after recently it’s being attacked by Indonesian crackers.

Level three; government will ask the ISPs (Internet Service Provider) to block all the porn sites. Yep, I do agree with this one.

Level four; (just a suggestion); Indonesian should internationally cooperate with other government (Japan and USA for example) whose citizen are suspected to be the owner of those sites. Yeah, this is probably what my minister didn’t yet even think about.

Level five: I haven’t yet think about this. Help me (my country) please?

One question to close this post. How many times do we open those babes there in a day (or hour)?

For now and then; Indonesia will join other Asia’s countries like China, India, and South Korea.

Good government create good people.

Source:

Kompas and DetikI-net (Bahasa Indonesia) and PC World (English)

Image courtesy of DetikI-net