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* meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:David_Wadie_Fisher-Freberg id.wp https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pengguna:David_Wadie_Fisher-Freberg min.wp https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangguno:David_Wadie_Fisher-Freberg commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:David_Wadie_Fisher-Freberg