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Govt to issue blocking notices to noncompliant tech operators
The government plans to issue notices to 100 top DSPs that their services will be blocked in the country if they do not register within five working days.
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A customer works on Nov. 20, 2019 at a table in front of the Google Cloud booth at Lotte Avenue shopping mall in South Jakarta. (JP/Donny Fernando)
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nregistered digital service providers have until next Wednesday to respond to a notice of noncompliance before their access to Indonesia’s cyberspace is blocked, the Communications and Information Ministry has warned, a day after scores of tech companies rushed to sign up with a licensing regime that critics fear could enable state censorship.
The ministry would be issuing notices to the 100 electronic service providers (ESPs) with the highest traffic that had failed to meet the July 20 registration deadline for the services they provided in Indonesia, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, the informatics applications director general, told a press briefing on Thursday.
Among the most prominent global tech companies to be flagged is Microsoft Corp., which had yet to register its Opera web browser, LinkedIn networking platform, Bing search engine and Steam online gaming platform by deadline day.
Online payment platform PayPal and the Yahoo search engine have also not registered, nor have e-commerce giants Alibaba Group and Amazon.com. Other ESPs to receive the notice include online gaming platforms such as Roblox, PUBG, DOTA, Counter-Strike and Epic Games.
The ministry’s internal records show that these and many other digital service providers generate considerable internet traffic from Indonesia.
Semuel said the government would impose blocks on noncompliant ESPs unless they completed their registration on the Online Single Submission (OSS) system, which the ministry had reportedly made available since January.
“If they still don’t complete their registration, we will begin blocking [user] access” in five working days, he added.
