Indonesia has the largest number of people accessing pornographic Web sites in the world, Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
“To date, Indonesia has the largest number of people who access porn sites,” said Tifatul, the former head of the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).
He did not provide any data to back up his comments.
Tifatul, an avid Internet user with his own Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as a blog, said he was concerned that the Internet was being used by people in the country for little else besides accessing pornographic materials.
He said this concern had prompted him to launch a campaign aimed at teaching people how to use the Internet as an online source of useful information.
“We’re going to encourage safe and healthy Internet use, or Insan,” he said. Insan is an acronym made from the words Internet, sehat (healthy) and aman (safe).
Tifatul did not say how much money had been set aside to establish the program, which builds on an initiative introduced by the previous minister, Sofyan Djalil.
A spokesman for the ministry, Gatot Dewa Broto, also could not provide information on the number of Indonesians accessing Web pornography. He denied the Insan project signaled a government crackdown on pornography.
Antara, JG
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