Indonesia Netizen Facts (April - June 2015)

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INDONESIA
N E T I Z E N
Internet Sehat (Healthy Internet) is a
campaign and educational program
originally initiated and served by ICT
Watch since 2002. The program
encourages students, parents,
teachers and general netizen in
Indonesia to use the Internet safely
and wisely. Internet Sehat was later
adopted and adapted widely by the
multi-stakeholders from various
partsofIndonesia.
Internet Sehat activities include
producing and distributing creative
commons licensed educational
booklets, conducting workshops
and training in a various cities, as
well as actively online campaigning
via websites and social media.
Please follow us on twitter
@internetsehat.
Linimassa (Timeliner) Trilogy is 3
volumes of documentary movies
illustrated how the ordinary
Indonesian people through Internet
can achieve extraordinary things.
These movies illustrate how social
media for facilitating peace
development in conflict areas,
mobilizing volunteers during a
natural disaster, as well as
developingmicroandsmallbusiness
sectors.
KalamKata is the service and
support provided specifically for
Indonesian CSOs, non-profit
institutions, citizen journalists and
information activists. Services
include free web hosting, Internet
training and capacity building, as
well as consultancy regarding public
advocacythroughtheInternet.
Kalam ata.org
serving, sharing, voicing
ICT Watch plays an active role in
advocating for improved Internet
governance in Indonesia through
multi-stakeholder dialogue. ICT
Watch also supports and engages
with equal, open and collaborative
discussions among of the Indonesian
CSOs Internet Governance Network
(ID-CONFIG)aswellasID-IGF.
DRAFT 3.0 | APRIL 2014 | ICT WATCH INDONESIA
INDONESIA INTERNET LANDSCAPE
by ICT Watch, Indonesia
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF
Written by Donny B. U.
Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network
SAFENETthe Citizen Lab of
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penetrationnetizen
88,1
million
population
252,4
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internetsehat.id
The majority of Internet users in Indonesia 18-25 years old. This is almost half of the total number of Internet
users in Indonesia (49%). This demographic of Internet users in Indonesia are consider 'digital natives'. They are
veryactiveusingthedigitaltechnologyandsocialnetworks.(Source:IndonesianISPAssociation/APJII,2015)
Java & Bali
52,0
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Sumatera
18,6
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Kalimantan
4,2
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Sulawesi
7,3
million
NTT, Papua,
Maluku
5,9
million
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LINIMASSA
ICT Watch Mission
To develop Indonesian people awareness,
emphasis on children and family,on the use
of ICT and exercise Internet safely and
wisely.(INTERNETSAFETY)
To empower regional civil society,
especially information and human rights
activists, by supporting them to use the ICT
and Internet as those are the enabling tools
in fulfilling the right to information.
(INTERNETRIGHTS).
To support global multistakeholder
dialogue in ICT and Internet Governance
whilst upholding the key principles of
transparency, accountability, equality,
collaboration and professionalism.
(INTERNETGOVERNANCE)
Indonesia Internet User’s Age
Indonesia’s Internet Population
Indonesia Internet Penetration
about
i c t w a t c h . i d
Address:
Jl. Tebet Barat Dalam 6H No. 16A Jakarta 12810 Indonesia
Phone: +622198495770 | Fax: +6221 8292428
Email: info@ictwatch.id | Web: ictwatch.id
based on APJII survey release, March 2015
Indonesia netizen online activities
Indonesia netizen devices used
mobile
85%
laptop
32%
pc/computer
14%
tablet
13%
based on APJII survey release, March 2015

2. Freedom of Expression
From 2008 to 2014, there have been at
least 74 individuals litigated under the
Electronic Information and Transaction
(EIT) Law. 92% of the cases were for
online defamation, 5% for blasphemy,
and 1% for online threats all under
Article 27 Paragraph 3.
There have been 90 cases related to
online defamation from January 2015
through April 2015 alone. The current
trends indicates at least four additional
cases per month.
Revision of EIT Law
The Ministry of Communication and Information
Technology (MCIT) and Indonesian Parliament
(DPR-RI) have agreed to revise the EIT Law as a
priority for the 2015 National Legislation Program.
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and human rights
activists advocate eliminating the defamation article
completely to encourage freedoms of expression.
However, the MCIT Minister proposed in early 2015
that the revision would be focused to reduce the
maximum prison sentence from the current six years.
Content Filtering
On July 2014, the MCIT enacted a
Ministerial Decree No.19 / 2014
(Permen 19/2014) to address Internet
sites that were considered to contain
"negative content". CSOs such as
Institute for Policy Research and
Advocacy (ELSAM), Institute for
Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR), Pers
Legal Aid (LBH Pers) and ICT Watch,
contested this decree on November
2014 for a material review of this
Ministerial Decree to the Supreme
Court. One of the arguments against
this decree for the lack of transparency
and accountability in implementing the
decree. A boundless interpretation of
this law has serious implications to the
freedom of expression in Indonesia.
To begin addressing this concern, the
MCIT recently formed a multi-
stakeholder panel (panel team) to
determine reasonable and proper
Internet filtering.
multi-stakeholderpolicy and governance
engagement
Indonesia Internet Governance Forum
The Indonesian Internet
Governance Forum (ID-
IGF) was established in
N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 2 t o
assemble government,
private sector, and civil
society organizations to discuss public
and social matters relating to the Internet
in Indonesia. The ID-IGF emphasized the
goal to promote transparent, democratic,
and inclusive governance of the Internet
for national development.
The 8th Global IGF in 2013 at Bali,
Indonesia where the ID-IGF emphasized
its commitment to implementing
internationally recognized principles and
goals relating to develop and govern the
Internet.
In addition, the ID-IGF hosted the 2014
National ID-IGF Dialogue to discuss
national matters of the Internet relating to
infrastructure, economy, law, and social
and culture.
Source: www.id-igf.or.id
Indonesia Child Online Protection (ID-COP)
The Indonesian Child Online
Protection (ID-COP) is a multi-
stakeholder hub that focuses
on protecting children on the
Internet. This was initiated by
the Indonesian Children Protection Commission (KPAI) in
order to coordinate efforts by government, private, and civil
society entities including ECPAT Indonesia, Nawala
Foundation, Terre Des Hommes, Google, Sejiwa Foundation,
Indonesia ICT Volunteers (RTIK) and ICT Watch. Currently,
the ID-COP is developing a response procedure for child
safety incidents through the Internet.
Source: www.idcop.id
Internet Negative Content Handling Forum
MCIT formed a forum (panel team) that come from multi-
stakeholder organization to provide recommendations for the
minister to determine an internet site can be filtered, not
filtered, or normalization from closure. This forum is expected
to be able to develop platform for transparent and
accountable the governance of internet content. Members of
this forum was selected from experts and practitioners that
come from representative prominent institution in Indonesia.
Source: www.kominfo.go.id
Indonesian ICT Volunteers
In 2011 Indonesian ICT Volunteers was
established as a community to help educate the
Indonesian public about various ICT topics. The
volunteer community consists of individuals
with various backgrounds such as ICT activists,
open source communities, bloggers, teachers,
academia, private sector, and government
officials. The community's goal is to help enhance the use of
ICT and fill the gap of ICT literacy in order to increase public
participation and ownership of the the ICTsector.
Source: www.relawan-tik.or.id
of the cases
occurred in 2014
59%
since the 2008 EIT law
enactment through 2014
74cases
ONLINE
DEFAMATION
CASES
19%
Political Election
7%
Institution
5%
Corruption
5%
Transaction
40%
Personal
24%
Critics
Source: www.safenetvoice.org
online defamation
rose to 4 cases per month
SAFEnet Annual Meeting, 2015, Jakarta Human Rights CSOs capacity building by ICT Watch, Aceh 2013