Jakarta. The government’s plan to block “offensive sites” on the Internet has come under fire from several Web sites, including two major news portals, which have suffered from access problems, presumably as a result of the plan.
News portal Detik.com’s advertisement section and Kompas.com were inaccessible on Wednesday morning, prompting Internet users and media experts to question a recent policy mandated by Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring.
On Monday, Tifatul said that 80 percent of “offensive sites” on the Internet in Indonesia had been blocked.
However, Detik.com founder and chairman Budiono Darsono expressed his outrage on Wednesday when the portal’s subdomain was blocked.
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