Govt Blocks 800,000 Sites Until December Last Year: Comm Ministry
7 January 2017 15:44 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Director General of Information Application of the Information and Communication Ministry, Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan, said that as of December 2016, the government had blocked around 800,000 sites, most of which contain pornographic contents, gambling, and hoaxes.
"90 percent of sites that the government blocked contain pornographic contents and the rest contains hoaxes and gambling sites," Samuel said in Jakarta on Saturday.
Samuel added that the blocking of those sites refers to the Regulation of the Minister of Communication and Information Number 19 0of 2014.
Before blocking the sites, he added, a team from the Ministry analyzed the contents reported by the public.
Samuel also dismissed the allegation that the government is too tight in supervising the cyber world.
AHMAD FAIZ