[PEN-L:11024] Fwd: RSF/IFEX alert on Indonesian internet control (fwd)

[D Shniad <shniad@xxxxxx>]

> ACTION ALERT - INDONESIA
> 19 June 1997
>
> Internet use to be controlled
>
> SOURCE: Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) Paris
>
> (RSF/IFEX) - On 18 June 1997, Minister of Tourism, Posts and
> Telecommunications Joop Ave said in launching a new Internet
> service for the partly state-owned telecommunications firm
> Indosat that Indonesia was planning to control access to the
> Internet as it went ahead with its programme to build the
> infrastructure to make the information superhighway accessible to
> many of Indonesia's 200 million citizens. Ave declared that
> "pornography [and] things that hamper or threaten national
> security" would be controlled. He added that "the values of the
> nation would definitely have a bearing upon the application of
> the Internet," and that Indonesia would not have an "anything
> goes" attitude toward the Internet.
>
> RECOMMENDED ACTION:
>
> Send appeals to authorities:
> -indicating that the threats against Internet use come during a
> period of restrictions on virtually every kind of freedom in
> Indonesia
> -requesting that all possible steps be taken immediately to
> guarantee the free flow of information, both on the Internet and
> on all other forms of media
>
> APPEALS TO:
>
> His Excellency General Suharto
> President
> Office of the President
> Bina Graha, Jalan Veteran No. 17
> Jakarta Pusal, Indonesia
> Fax: +62 21 360 517/367 782/345 4438
>
> Copies to:
>
> Agung Singgih, S.H.
> Attorney General
> Jakarta, Indonesia
> Fax: +62 21 720 8557
>
> Haji Utoyo Oesman
> Minister of Justice
> Jakarta, Indonesia
> Fax: +62 21 525 3095
>
> Ali Alatas
> Minister of Foreign Affairs
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs
> Jalan Taman Pejambon 6
> Jakarta Pusat
> Indonesia
> Fax: +62 21 345 0517
>
> Please copy appeals to the source if possible.
>
> For further information, contact Barbara Vital-Durand at RSF, 5,
> rue Geoffroy Marie, Paris 75009, France, tel: +33 1 44 83 84 84,
> fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51, e-mail: rsf@calvanet. calvacom.fr,
> Internet: http://www.calvacom.fr/rsf/.
>
> The information contained in this action alert is the sole
> responsibility of RSF. In citing this material for broadcast or
> publication, please credit RSF.
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