Tech in Asia

In a recent measure intended to prevent terrorism in Indonesia, the nation's Ministry of Information and Communication will start closing down websites which contain messages or images of extremist violence. The plan's original target was to block 900 reported websites that contain violence and could lead to terrorist behavior by August 2011. But so far only 300 of those sites have been taken down. Tifatul Sembiring, the infamous minister whom we have written aboutfrequently, believes that the root of violence and terrorism is an incorrect understanding of religion or ideology. He ...