In July 2012, the Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information, Tifatul Sembiring, declared that the government had shut down one million websites in view of the Islamic holy month of Ramadhan. This was in addition to another one million sites the ministry claimed to have blocked back in February 2012. Minister Sembiring, a politician from the Islamic-based Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (Prosperous Justice Party, PKS), said that his staff would continue blocking access to online pornography beyond the holy month.
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- The Internet and Everyday Life in Indonesia: A New Moral Panic?
- Lim, Merlyna (Author)
- Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (Contributor)
- ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.1163/22134379-12340008
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Lim, M. (2013). The Internet and Everyday Life in Indonesia: A New Moral Panic? Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 169(1), 133–147.