RIM has agreed that filter web access on its BlackBerry phones in IndonesiaBlackBerry-maker Research in motion is to carry out internet pornography filters in Indonesia after being threatened with a blackout for its 2 million users in the country.
RIM said today, it would apply a internet censor in the country "as soon as possible" after the Indonesian Minister for communications Tifatul Sembiring warned, BlackBerry Internet access would be "close" If it failed to comply with.
This is the first time that the Canadian company has agreed to filter the Internet on its high-security BlackBerry phones.
Indonesia, which is the world's most populous Muslim nation, recently stepped up its internet punishment with requirements on all Telekom companies that block access to adult material.
Sembiring has given RIM a two-week period to block access to porn sites. RIM has also been commissioned to configure a server in the country, which will bring all uploaded user messages during local jurisdictions, in contrast to the current situation where most of the servers based in the West.
"We have repeatedly asked them to do it, and we have given them some time," he told the Jakarta globe on the weekend. "If they keep the delay, we will close their operation because they fail to comply with our love".
Ministry spokesman Gatot Dewa Brata confirmed the news agency AFP that BlackBerry users would not be able to browse the Internet on their device, unless RIM installed its censor.
"Research in the resolution confirms that the share minister Tifatul Sembiring sense of urgency in this case, and it is fully committed to working with Indonesia's air carriers to introduce a prompt, compliant filtering solution for BlackBerry subscribers in Indonesia as soon as possible," said RIM in a statement.
Corresponds to the FÆLGS Declaration of intent, Sembiring told Reuters: "So do it."
Most other Telecom companies in the country is understood to have already deployed Internet filters, block access to adult material for the country's 40 million Internet users.
Detention caused by Indonesia's anti-porn bill, passed in 2008 by conservative Islamic parties to slow down the flow of a perceived increase in immorality in Indonesian society.
The Indonesian ultimatum, selects the latest developments in FÆLGS three years of struggle in Asia and the Middle East, as increased security fear has prompted the Government concerns in several countries through BlackBerry encryption of e-mails and messages.
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