Internet & Social Media

June 2025

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – June 13, 2025

Surabaya – The East Java Regional Police (Polda) Cyber Directorate has arrested four people suspected of being involved in a same sex network or gay group on social media.

May 2025

News/Indonesia
Radar Tuban – May 29, 2025

Andika Julia Perdana Putra – The government's move to block the archive.org website has attracted support and opposition from the public. The website known as a digital archive was created specifically to preserve and provide universal access to all information on the internet.

April 2025

Statements/Indonesia
KKJ Press Release – April 11, 2025

The Indonesian Committee for the Safety of Journalists (KKJ) strongly condemns the digital attack in the form of distributed denial of service (DDoS) against the Tempo news portal. Not stopping at Tempo, a number of other mass media that published articles on the DDoS attack against Tempo a

February 2025

Analysis/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – February 12, 2025

Jakarta – The inauguration of Deddy Corbuzier to the Defence Ministry as a special staff member for social and public communications adds to the long list of celebrities in government.

January 2025

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – January 7, 2025

Jakarta – The official website belonging to the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) was hacked and the home page changed to a display of an online gambling site on Monday January 6.

August 2024

News/Indonesia
Jawa Pos – August 30, 2024

Muhammad Ridwan – The Instagram account belonging to Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), @sahabaticw (@friendsoficw), was suspended or temporarily blocked by Meta. The reason given was that it had violated the internal platform rules.

June 2024

News/Indonesia
Kompas.com – June 16, 2024

Fitria Chusna Farisa, Jakarta – Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SafeNET) Executive Director Nenden Sekar Arum believes that blocking the social media platform X (Twitter) is not the solution to stopping the spread of pornographic content in Indonesia.

News/Indonesia
Kompas.com – June 2, 2024

Ambaranie Nadia Kemala Movanita, Jakarta – The proposal to give the authority to the National Police to block content and slow down internet access is considered to violate citizens' rights in the digital world.

February 2024

News/Indonesia
Kompas.com – February 24, 2024

Ambaranie Nadia Kemala Movanita, Jakarta – Drone Emprit founder Ismail Fahmi says that there is still a great deal of discussion and news reports on the issue of election fraud during the 2024 elections.

October 2022

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – October 27, 2022

Jakarta – The Press Council says that the digital attacks experienced by several online mass media sites recently are a form of censorship.