1. Tim Aduan Konten telah menerima aduan dari masyarakat terkait konten asusila di platform T*mb*r. Setelah dilakukan penelusuran dan analisa konten, terdapat lebih dari 360 akun asusila pada medsos t*mb*r dot com dan aplikasinya.

On Twitter, the ministry announced that its Content Complaint Team had received complaints from the public related to indecent content on Tumblr. Following an investigation and content analysis, it stated that there were more than 360 indecent accounts found on the platform's social media tumblr.com and application.

"We also found that T*mb*r does not have a mechanism nor reporting tools to report indecent content," read the statement. "On Feb. 28, 2018, the Content Complaint Team then sent a notification email to T*mb*r and asked T*mb*r to clean its platform of indecent content, with a maximum response time of 2 x 24 hours."

It added that Tumblr had given no response regarding the complaint after the time limit was up, "Thus [we] have blocked eight [domain name systems] DNSs [owned by] T*mb*r on Monday afternoon, March 5, 2018."

4. Sampai lewat batas waktu yang diberikan tersebut, tidak ada respon dari T*mb*r, sehingga dilakukan tindakan pemblokiran terhadap 8 DNS T*mb*r pada hari Senin 5 Maret 2018 sore.

— Kementerian Kominfo (@kemkominfo) March 6, 2018

Read also: Tumblr blogs to follow for aspiring writers

Netizens quickly responded to the announcement, with many criticizing it of being excessive.

One Twitter user pointed out that the platform actually had a feature that enabled users to report abuse and filter unwanted content.

tambahan, tumblr juga ada fitur "filtering" agar pengguna bisa gunakan "safe mode" atau filter konten yang gak diinginkan, termasuk konten porno / nsfw. sayapun pakai fitur ini pic.twitter.com/5ZfI1kDUM7

— ᴊᴇꜱ ☄️ check pinned (@silverishblue) March 6, 2018

Another netizen considered the move an easy way out, instead of educating internet users.

Once again, you choose the easy way instead of fixing the root of all of it. You choose to block one web bcs not even 1% of the accounts, instead of educating the internet users or enforcing them to limit kids from accessing it.

— Wada' anzilah (@anziil) March 6, 2018

Meanwhile, @adedarmawan expressed his disappointment as the decision could affect Tumblr users who had been using the platform for positive things, such as himself, who used it to learn how to create 3D content and to meet with other 3D content creators through the social network. (kes)

saya sangat kecewa hal ini berdampak ke pengguna tumblr untuk hal2 positif, sy menggunakan tumblr dan mendapat banyak support disana dan saya jg belajar membuat konten 3d sejak 2014 berkat bertemu beberapa 3d content creator utk game @TheSims pic.twitter.com/PALdZEiVNK

— ade darmawan (@adedarmawan) March 6, 2018

Popular

The fragile promise of pluralism, religious freedom in Southeast Asia

Coffee, gold push up inflation to 1.95 percent in April

Furniture exporters decry new quarantine rule