JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia plans to launch in January a new automated system using 44 servers to help block websites displaying content such as pornography or extremist ideology, a communications ministry official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The world\u2019s most populous Muslim-majority nation has stepped up scrutiny of online content following a surge of hoax stories and hate speech, as well as a controversial anti-pornography law pushed by Islamist parties.<\/p>\n
The so-called \u201ccrawling system\u201d searches internet content and issues alerts when inappropriate material is found, Semuel Pangerapan, a director general at the communications and informatics ministry, told reporters.<\/p>\n
The ministry would immediately block foreign-owned sites carrying such content, but applications such as messaging services would receive warnings first, he added.<\/p>\n
This week, Indonesia threatened to block Facebook Inc\u2019s WhatsApp messenger service because of obscene Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images provided by third parties on the service. [nL3N1ND25H]<\/p>\n
Tenor Inc, one of the GIF providers for WhatsApp, has been blocked in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
The company has \u201cimplemented a fix\u201d for the issue, a Tenor spokeswoman said on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Pangerapan said the ministry would monitor Tenor\u2019s filter for the next few days before it lifts the ban.<\/p>\n
Next week, the communications ministry will summon executives from other internet-based companies, such as Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google and social media operator Twitter, he added.<\/p>\n
The ministry would discuss content Indonesia does not allow to be circulated, he said.<\/p>\n
Ministry data showed that Indonesia had blocked around 780,000 websites by the end of September, mostly those with pornographic content. Other blocked sites displayed material featuring violence, gambling and radicalism.<\/p>\n
The government has also asked the public to report obscene online content.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople need to be active to flag inappropriate content, not only on WhatsApp but also on Facebook and Twitter,\u201d Pangerapan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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