To night I received this email from Melsa :

Dear valued member,

Due to the Indonesian Minister Legal number : 84/M.KOMINFO/04/08 concerning some minor harming internet content for the Indonesian community therefore we hereby to disable all access to the sites hosting the particular content, as follows :
1.Youtube
2.MySpace
3.Metacafe
4.Multiply
5.Rapidshare
We’re sorry for this inconvenience.
Thanks for your intention

I do speechless. Well it do happens now. They blocked our access to several sites because our government thinks it would harm Indonesia community. Minor harm? Just because they had FITNA movie? if you don’t like to watch.. do not watch it. If the government do thinks people will made riot or whatever.. than teach the community to act and behave in the right way if they don’t like the movie.

I am sad to see this decision. When we want to take a step forward.. the government push us to take a step back. YouTube contain so many great video for education purpose…

This is so ridiculous. Dark ages for internet users in Indonesia??????????????????

Akhir-akhir ini YouTube jadi topik yang hangat. Well pagi ini saya tidak bisa masuk youtube. Waktu cari info ke isp katanya.. di blokir ma yg diatas. sempet kesal karena saya adalah pengguna youtube untuk mengupload video kegiatan Universe Awareness sekaligus pengunduh sejati film-film astronomi. Banyak materi menarik disana yang saya gunakan dalam edukasi astronomi ke masyarakat.

Well… aneh juga kalau hanya karena sebuah film lantas dilakukan pembredelan.. udah kayak jaman dulu aja pake bredel-bredel segala. Hanya berganti jubah … Read More