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Minister Rudiantara vows more censorship to combat online porn
Jakarta Globe - December 14, 2014
"If there is any keyword with any porn in it the search engine will automatically shut it down," Rudiantara, the minister, said as quoted by Tempo.co in Jakarta on Sunday at an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child. He did not say how his ministry would compel search engines like Google to "shut down" the websites in question.
Rudiantara, who was appointed minister in late October, claimed that the ministry had blocked access to more than 20,000 websites with pornographic content so far this year. The previous minister, Tifatul Sembiring, claimed to have blocked more than a million websites during his five years in the post.
Rudiantara said the campaign to block such websites was part of the effort to prevent sexual abuse of children, claiming that the perpetrators in more than half of cases of child sex abuse admitted to watching online porn. The Jakarta Globe was unable to verify the figures. Studies the world over have established no definite causal link between the viewing of pornography and the perpetration of sex abuse of minors.
The Indonesian minister, though, is backed by the National Commission for Child Protection, or Komnas PA, whose chairman, Arist Merdeka Sirait, claimed that "porn sites provide an opportunity for unwanted [behavior]." "We stand firm in the fight against porn sites and sexual abuse of children," he added as quoted by Tempo.co.
Komnas PA said it had received reports of 1,689 cases of alleged child abuse in the first six months of this year, involving 1,879 children. Forty-eight percent of those cases involved sexual abuse, and 16 percent of the alleged abuses were said to be perpetrated by minors.
Source: http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/minister-rudiantara-vows-censorship-combat-online-porn/.
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