Minggu, 27 November 2011

Internet Filtering in Indonesia

A. BACKGROUND
        There is no doubt that the Internet provides a huge variety of information which can be accessed by people around the globe,whereever and whenever they want,and much more easily than before.On the other hand,the Internet has worrying negative impacts for people.The spread of pornography through the Internet has apeared as a serious problem.
States have been challenged to inensively manage the wide spread of this unexpected information particulary from outside their own country's borders.Internet filtering has been used to control the spread of pornographic materials by a majority of states.Indonesia,a country with the biggest Mslim society in the world, is greatly concerned with this issue and has imposed Internet filtering regulations on its national Internet connection.