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January 09, 2011, 11:42 PM EST
By Sue Ling Chan and Femi Adi
(Updates with Indonesian government comment in fourth paragraph.)
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd. said it’s working to set up Internet filters for Blackberry services in Indonesia to comply with government demands.
The company will put in place a solution “as soon as possible” and is in discussions with carriers and the government on the matter, it said in an e-mailed statement today.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology will meet Jan. 17 with RIM and six mobile-service providers to ask them to filter pornographic websites, Muhammad Budi Setyawan, director general of post and telecommunications at the ministry, said today by phone from Kuala Lumpur.
“We are not specifically targeting RIM, but pornography,” Setiawan said. “Most of Indonesia’s providers already block the sites. If RIM agrees to filter, they may take two to three days to discuss or hold the meetings with the operators. If they do not want to filter, we will ask RIM to close the browser service as a whole.”
RIM has until Jan. 21 to begin filtering pornographic websites, Tifatul Sembiring, Communication and Information Technology Minister, told reporters in Jakarta today. If it doesn’t comply, Indonesia may begin “legal proceedings,” which could include “revocation,” he said, without elaborating.
“All telecommunications operators doing business in Indonesia have to obey the regulations in Indonesia, Sembiring said by mobile-phone text message earlier today. “RIM also has to respect and obey the rules.”
RIM hasn’t complied with several of the government’s requests, including blocking pornographic sites and building a server in Indonesia so authorities can “conduct investigations against perpetrators of crime,” Sembiring said.
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To contact the reporter on this story: Sue Ling Chan in Singapore at slchan@bloomberg.net; Femi Adi in Jakarta at fadi1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Young-Sam Cho at ycho2@bloomberg.net; Greg Ahlstrand at gahlstrand@bloomberg.net;
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(Updates with Indonesian government comment in fourth paragraph.)
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd. said it’s working to set up Internet filters for Blackberry services in Indonesia to comply with government demands.
The company will put in place a solution “as soon as possible” and is in discussions with carriers and the government on the matter, it said in an e-mailed statement today.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology will meet Jan. 17 with RIM and six mobile-service providers to ask them to filter pornographic websites, Muhammad Budi Setyawan, director general of post and telecommunications at the ministry, said today by phone from Kuala Lumpur.
“We are not specifically targeting RIM, but pornography,” Setiawan said. “Most of Indonesia’s providers already block the sites. If RIM agrees to filter, they may take two to three days to discuss or hold the meetings with the operators. If they do not want to filter, we will ask RIM to close the browser service as a whole.”
RIM has until Jan. 21 to begin filtering pornographic websites, Tifatul Sembiring, Communication and Information Technology Minister, told reporters in Jakarta today. If it doesn’t comply, Indonesia may begin “legal proceedings,” which could include “revocation,” he said, without elaborating.
“All telecommunications operators doing business in Indonesia have to obey the regulations in Indonesia, Sembiring said by mobile-phone text message earlier today. “RIM also has to respect and obey the rules.”
RIM hasn’t complied with several of the government’s requests, including blocking pornographic sites and building a server in Indonesia so authorities can “conduct investigations against perpetrators of crime,” Sembiring said.
Top technology stories: TOP TECH Top Indonesia’s Stories: TOP ID Top Canadian news: TOP CAN For Indonesia telecom news: TNI INDO TLS BN
--Editors: Greg Ahlstrand, Young-Sam Cho
To contact the reporter on this story: Sue Ling Chan in Singapore at slchan@bloomberg.net; Femi Adi in Jakarta at fadi1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Young-Sam Cho at ycho2@bloomberg.net; Greg Ahlstrand at gahlstrand@bloomberg.net;
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