Jakarta (MidLand) – Director of Application Control at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics, General Directorate of Information Applications (Ditjen APTIKA Kemenkominfo) Teguh Arifiyadi explained that the content control mechanism used in Indonesia is a well-known model as a control blacklist.
“Blacklist That’s all, please go to the community first. “If there is something that is not true, then we (the government) will filter it,” Teguh said Friday at the Ministry of Communications and Information office in central Jakarta.
The government deliberately chose a content control model blacklist continue to maintain the mandate of the Indonesian government system that adheres to democracy and freedom of expression.
This is obviously different from checking named content white list which is a model of strict content control and an example of a country that adheres to this model is China.
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Teguh mentions the model white list prioritizing very rigorous screening initially by the government before content can be distributed in the digital space.
According to him, for countries that adhere to the model white list Almost 80% of content regulation is supervised by the government and only after this the public can receive filtered information.
“Self white list much cleaner (the digital space), but what are the downsides? Democracy. “Democracy will be threatened and people’s freedom of expression will also be limited,” Teguh said.
As far as the Ministry of Communications and Information is concerned, the contents on digital platforms to which access must be prevented or blocked are the following: pornography or child pornography, gambling, blackmail, fraud, violence or child abuse, slander or defamation.
In addition, there is also content that violates intellectual property, products subject to special regulations, SARA provocations, fake news or hoaxes, terrorism or radicalism, as well as information or electronic documents that violate the law.
It was recorded that from August 2018 to June 26, 2024, APTIKA General Directorate blocked 5,999,861 negative contents in the Indonesian digital space.
Gambling and pornography contents were the most frequently blocked by the government with details of 2,548,743 contents and pornographic contents with a total of 1,219,257 contents respectively.
Looking at the source, 3,812,362 contents come from sites websitewhile a whopping 2,187,499 pieces of content came from social media platforms such as X, Meta and TikTok.
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