RIM Umumkan Akan Sensor / Filter Situs Porno di Internet Akses BlackBerry di Indonesia
The Wall Street Journal telah melaporkan statement yang diberikan RIM yang akan segera implementasi internet filtering di Indonesia walaupun ini adalah pertama kali RIM melakukan filtering BlackBerry.
RIM akan bertemu dengan Menkominfo pada 17 Jan 2011 ini untuk diskusi masalah tersebut dan implementasi filtering situs pornography di internet browsing khusus untuk user di Indonesia setelah menerima ancaman dari Menkominfo untuk stop layanan internet browsing sama sekali di Indonesia jika RIM tidak mematuhi tuntutan Menkominfo seperti yang dilaporkan sebelumnya di “Menkominfo Akan Cabut Izin RIM Indonesia”
From The Wall Street Journal:
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Research in Motion Ltd. said Monday that it will implement Internet filtering in Indonesia “as soon as possible,” after a minister threatened Friday to shut down Internet browsing via BlackBerry smartphones if the Canadian company fails to block websites containing pornography.
Research In Motion will filter pornographic internet content for its Blackberry smartphone users in Indonesia, following government pressure to stop access to porn sites or face its browsing service being shut down.It will be the first time ever that the company will apply Internet filtering in any country, according to an official at RIM’s Indonesia office, who declined to be named. RIM and the government will meet on Jan. 17 to discuss the matter, Gatot Dewobroto, a spokesman for Indonesia’s Information Ministry said Monday.
“RIM has been engaged with its carrier partners and the government on this matter and continues to make it a top priority to implement satisfactory technical solutions with its partners as soon as possible,” the company said in an email statement.
The latest development comes after the Indonesian government last year told Internet service providers in the country to block customers from viewing websites with pornographic content. The threat made Friday against RIM was the latest in a slew of warnings Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring has given since last year; the minister has also been demanding that the Canadian company set up a server in Indonesia to allow the government to access data sent via BlackBerry if needed for example in probing corruption cases.
Analysts predict that BlackBerry users in Indonesia number around 2 million.
source: The Wall Street Journal
Dengan pengumuman tersebut, user BlackBerry di Indonesia bisa lega sedikit karena awalnya panik layanan BIS mereka sama sekali tidak dapat digunakan di smartphone BlackBerry mereka yang telah dibeli dengan harga yang tidak murah. Awalnya karena ancaman menkominfo adalah stop layanan internet browsing sama sekali, jika RIM akan patuhi dengan filtering situs pornography, user BlackBerry tetap dapat menggunakan internet browsing untuk kepentingan bisnis, download applications, mencari informasi lainnya di BlackBerrynya seperti biasa.
