Indonesian Authority Officially Blocks Youtube
by David Sudjiman ~ April 5th, 2008. Filed under: News.
Officially announced on April 2nd, 2008, Indonesian Communication and Informatics ministry requested local ISPs to block any sites publishing information regarding the movie Fitna. This will include access to popular video sharing YouTube.
Several Indonesian local ISPs has been requested to close access with any resources available resulting many local internet users not being able to access YouTube.
The movie Fitna, created by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, creates havoc among some of islamic practitioners as it is considered allegedly focusing on islamic terrorism.
Two indonesian bloggers, Thomas Arie Setiawan and Adinoto posted their objection that this political move will bring Indonesia to internet dark ages where government interfering and censoring internet traffic.
Indonesian Communication and Informatics ministry also considering to apply internet censorship for pornography.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
This is a sad day for Indonesia
April 5th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Kita manfaatkan saja situs lokal di http://veeon.com
April 5th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Worse…
Youtube can be just the first from many.
Translation from my blog
“The blocking of Youtube is a sign which show in the future, by using a ‘hot button’ issue, our government can pretending be populist governement while keeping our people dumb. It is not about whether you are agree or not to the blocking of Youtube. It is about how easy to block facilitation of gathering, speaking out opinion,just by using the current issue.”
April 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Indonesia dan Pakistan…
Apa persamaannya?
). Dan korbannya sama, youtube.
Sama2x ada network admin yang bodoh
Hampir bisa dipastikan semua ISP yg peering ke OpenIXP pasti punya preference lebih tinggi untuk memilih OpenIXP. Apa jadinya kalo ada ISP yang advertise network or…
April 5th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I have posted my response too in my own blog
Funny thing is, what i heard from my friends that using BIGnet as their ISP, they still can see youtube through web proxy like hidemyass.com
April 6th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Not all moslem are terrorist and not all YouTube content is inappropriate. How’s that?
I believe the government should learn to police this “Fitna” information in more wisely manner. I don’t mind about information censorship, particularly for Indonesia. There are still a lot more less educated people who will be easily misunderstood the situation and that where censorship should be appropriately in place.
However, it’s just like killing a rat by destroying an island.
Very stupid!