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Pornographic Web Sites to Be Shut Within Two Months, Tifatul Vows
Camelia Pasandaran | July 14, 2010

Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring, pictured on the left, says Indonesians will no longer be able to access local or international Web sites it decides are pornographic within "two months." (Antara Photo) Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring, pictured on the left, says Indonesians will no longer be able to access local or international Web sites it decides are pornographic within "two months." (Antara Photo)
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yuventius
5:54pm Jul 16, 2010

"and sites of questionable moral or religious value respectively,"

Who do they think they are? Talking about making judgments on what is of questionable religious value. The heck? Are you seriously allowing this go on, Mr. President? This is ridiculous.

masmon2
9:50pm Jul 15, 2010

I don't know that his plan is even possible is it ?

If he manages it then expect the prostitution industry to grow tenfold as the married porn junkies (maximum respect) can only get their kicks by indulging in the real thing. Now that can't be healthy for man kind (or woman kind for that matter).


kales
7:20pm Jul 15, 2010

Looks like there will be an exodus to Singapore, not only for the gambling but for internet porn too.

Roland
11:12am Jul 15, 2010

@SirAnthonyKnown-Bender - got a slow connection on Indonesia's so-called high speed internet! I guess it just raises the inner tensions to check every 10 minutes or so if a 1 MB picture has been already completely revealed.

Well, that's something Mr. Titaful could correct to the better I would say!


padt
10:39am Jul 15, 2010

My best Indonesian porn story: (Told it before, but it's worth repeating because it is fairly typical.) A friend from Bandung tells me about one of those white robed, bearded young men who goes around the universities with his mates harassing people and demanding sharia law. One Friday he was absent from Friday Prayers.

"Where is he?"

"In his room, downloading porn."


All pornographic Web sites, both Indonesian and international, will be blocked within two months, Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring said on Wednesday.

“We should not wait for too long to close down these sites because otherwise more will people copy and disseminate this material,” he said during a doorstop interview in the Presidential Palace complex.

Tifatul said requests from the Indonesian Commission to Protect Children (KPAI) and the women’s wing of Islamic organization Muhammadiyah to block access to pornographic Web sites, and sites of questionable moral or religious value respectively, had reinvigorated his plan.

Tifatul, from the conservative Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), said that pornographic material was already prohibited by the law.

“There’s an article in the Anti-Pornography Law that the nation should protect its citizens from the dangers of pornography,” he said. “So if God is willing, we will fulfill our obligations, otherwise the continued presence of this material will violate our law.”

The law created widespread controversy throughout Indonesia when it was enacted in 2008, though the Constitutional Court upheld the legislation earlier this year.

Tifatul said the ministry would filter international Web sites and close Indonesian Web site found to be objectionable.

“For international sites — as the pornography gets into Indonesia through internet service providers, we will request the ISP to block it. No action is necessary by us.”

Confronted on the difficulties of determining which Web sites could be categorized as porn sites, and which could be subjectively considered artistic or educational, Tifatul said that he already had a benchmark standard for pornography.

“We have already received the standard parameters of the international software industry. We will use those first,” he said.

“We only need to mirror from the standard. While carrying out the plan we will perfect the standard. Web sites that are not vulgar will be left untouched.”