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BlackBerry Ban Threat Set to Remain Despite Pledge to Cooperate From RIM
Ismira Lutfia & Camelia Pasandaran | January 11, 2011

People using BlackBerry smartphones in Jakarta. A tech Web site published details of a touch and type smartphone code-named BlackBerry Dakota, which reportedly allows consumers to pay for items by waving the phone against a special terminal. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal) People using BlackBerry smartphones in Jakarta. A tech Web site published details of a touch and type smartphone code-named BlackBerry Dakota, which reportedly allows consumers to pay for items by waving the phone against a special terminal. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal)
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RiDe
10:06am Jan 12, 2011

why he always try to block pornograph in internet and never start to make a campaign about how to use healthy internet for example. RIM or any other smartphone is just tools.

and about the server, is really doesn't make any sense. just ask them about user and password for the server.

i think he never knew about IT technically but his religious agenda

blackberrypin
7:33pm Jan 11, 2011

Get real,,,Tifatul just doesnt know what to do to anticipate the existence of pornograph, so Blackberry is just one of the victim of the non-efficient anticipation which had been done by Tifatul. This would be once again a controversial way if it would be done on near future,,,

Blackberry pin setting


waroenkkito
9:06am Jan 11, 2011

Menkominfo tdk memikirkan masyarakat, coba bayangkan efeknya, harga blackberry jatuh, pengusaha ponsel / toko ponsel rugi, harga  jatuh, fungsi kegunaan internet atau download memang sdh hilang, coba anda bayangkan brapa banyak dvd porno yg dijual atau handphone yg punnya camera yg bisa membuat video porno,,,,, sy rasa hampir semua merk, apakah sebagai penyimpan media semua komputer dan handphone tidak bisa memutar video porno......


Roland
6:52am Jan 11, 2011

I think Titaful has a sick obsession with porn. Apart of his religious agenda I think that he got probably as a young person a couple of times caught while watching blue movies and satisfying himself which led to this trauma to destroy what he likes most! The excuse that the main reason to monitor data sent between BB users is just an excuse to get his obsessive agenda through. Why should RIM be charged with breaking the anti-pornography law - they are not transmitting porn, it is up to the users to access it. It would be the same to charge for example Dell or as a matter of fact any other PC manufacturers with the same law as the user can receive porn via internet.


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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said on Monday it would work to set up filters for its Web services in response to the government’s demands it block access to pornography on its devices.

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, however, said its threat to ban the Canadian company’s services in Indonesia would stay in place until its Jan. 21 deadline.

In a statement made available to the Jakarta Globe on Monday, RIM said it shared Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring’s “sense of urgency” on the issue and it was “fully committed to working with Indonesia’s carriers to put in place a prompt, compliant filtering solution for BlackBerry subscribers in Indonesia as soon as possible.”

RIM also said it had been engaged with the government on the matter and continued to make it a top priority to implement satisfactory technical solutions with its carrier partners as soon as possible.

Ministry spokesman Gatot Dewa Broto said the statement was appreciated and viewed it as a positive step.

“But this is not the answer to the problem,” he said, adding that the government would seek further assurances during a meeting in Jakarta with representatives from RIM and six service providers.

It is expected RIM will make a final decision on whether to comply with the ministry’s requests at the meeting on Jan. 17.

State-owned Telkomsel, which offers BlackBerry services, has said it would comply with the country’s pornography laws.

Febriati Nadira, a spokeswoman for XL Axiata, has also said it was in talks with the government to find the “best solution” to the matter.

Apart from blocking access to pornographic Web sites, Tifatul has also been adamant in demanding that RIM set up local servers to allow the country’s law enforcers to monitor data sent between BlackBerry users.

“All telecommunications operators in Indonesia have complied with the regulation. Why not RIM? I think that they will, but they should not delay,” the minster said.

Tifatul reiterated on Monday that the government would seek a ban on BlackBerry services if RIM failed to filter pornographic Web sites on its handsets by Jan. 21.

“We cannot tolerate it. If we have to be strict with our domestic operators, why shouldn’t we be strict with foreign operators?” he said.

Domestic operators are also required to filter pornography.

The minister assured the country’s estimated two million BlackBerry users the ban would only block access to the device’s Web services and not affect the popular BlackBerry Messenger service.

If the Canadian manufacturer failed to meet the deadline, Tifatul said the ministry would begin the legal process that could see RIM’s license revoked.

The company could be charged with breaching the 1999 Telecommunications Law, 2008 Information and Electronic Transaction Law and 2008 Antipornography Law.