Hello everyone,
In November 2020, Indonesian Ministry of ICT passed a new regulation
(Permenkominfo
5/2020
<https://jdih.kominfo.go.id/produk_hukum/view/id/759/t/peraturan+menteri+komunikasi+dan+informatika+nomor+5+tahun+2020>)
on "Private Electronic System''. Among others, the regulation would allow
the government to force ISPs and basically any web operator to unmask IP
addresses of websites that are user-generated for a very broad set of
reasons, including but not limited to "inflammatory contents" and "public
disorder". The Electronic Frontier Foundation has discussed this new
regulation at length here
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/indonesias-proposed-online-intermediary-regulation-may-be-most-repressive-yet>
.
At Indonesian Wikipedia village pump
<https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Warung_Kopi_(Kebijakan)#Permenkominfo_No._5/2020>,
we concluded that this regulation will invariably make Wikimedia projects
and affiliates in Indonesia subject to it. We are very concerned about the
possibility of a broad interpretation of this regulation by the government
and its effect on Wikimedia projects here, especially observing the
increasingly
illiberal attitude
<https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/11/07/from-buzzers-to-prosecutions-indonesias-internet-freedom-under-threat.html>
of the current government on Internet and data policy.
We would very much welcome suggestions, warning tales, and/or practical
experiences that we could learn in anticipating this regulation's incoming
enforcement.
Best,
*David W. Fisher-Freberg*
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