ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship The foregoing cases make up a fraction of all prohibited content identified, and provide the instances of government overreach in limiting government access to their systems and user data online speech, particularly on the basis of the ITE stored thereon. A number of platforms who failed Law. From February to April 2021, the Criminal to comply with this registration requirement before Investigation Bureau of the National Police issued the set deadline of July 24 were subsequently content removal warnings against 200 social blocked; among the list were Yahoo and PayPal.89 media accounts for allegedly engaging in hate In August, KOMINFO stated that registered speech, in contravention to Article 28(2), as part platforms could still be subject to blocking if they of its newly invented Virtual Police Program. 85 fail to moderate content as mandated.90 KOMINFO Created in February 2021, it had the power to representatives have since denied that MR5 poses warn netizens about the illegality of their posts. 86 substantial online expression and privacy risks, As of March 2023, Indonesia reportedly plans maintaining that it is rather necessary to enhance to introduce new legislation tightening control cybersecurity in the country.91 over social media platforms and would allow the government to make “urgent” requests for content During the 2024 presidential election, there are to be removed within four hours.87 also some indications that this regulation has In 2022, pursuant to the stipulation of MR5, several Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka had been major online service providers including Google, requested to be taken down by KOMINFO. Prabowo Twitter and META registered themselves with and Gibran is the presidential and vice presidential KOMINFO to avoid being blocked in the country. 88 candidate supported by the current president, As a result of such registration, these platforms Joko Widodo and the Ministry of Communication must now comply with the government’s stringent and Informatics, Budi Arie Setiadi. been misused. Some posts that criticised Prabowo content moderation guidelines, take down any “ The three-part test has not been effectively incorporated into the legal framework of Ministerial Regulation 5, thereby opening up avenues for the infringement of freedom of expression in Indonesia. It imposes unrealistically short time frames for content removal, and would likely result in over-censorship by many digital platforms and services. - Alia Yofira Karunian, Member of PurpleCode Collective State Surveillance to Stifle Dissent The government supposedly employs surveillance technologies to stifle online freedoms. The government is under suspicion of procuring spyware manufactured by Cytrox to conduct surveillance on journalists and activists,92 as well as utilising Circles technology.93 Indonesia 93