ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship
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The ASEAN Regional Coalition to
#StopDigitalDictatorship urges Indonesia to
repeal Ministerial Regulation Number 5 Year
2020 (MR5) and its amendment, Ministerial
Regulation Number 10 Year 2021 (MR10)46
The regulation introduces content moderation
and implementing guidelines related to MR5
provisions inconsistent with internationally
and its amendment MR10. Despite falling
recognized human rights, including freedom
under KOMINFO’s lawmaking authority, public
of expression. The coalition stresses that
participation remains essential. Pressing further,
MR5 and its amendment MR10 exacerbate
the coalition asserts that Indonesia has neither
existing challenges for freedom of opinion and
improved its response to issues hindering such
expression, severely impeding internet freedom
freedoms nor addressed the associated risk of
through excessive penalties for non-
judicial harassment faced by citizens,
compliance. Expressing concerns,
especially human rights defenders,
the coalition notes the government’s
expressing themselves online.
inadequate response to problems
hindering online freedoms and the
heightened risk of judicial harassment
faced by citizens, particularly human
rights defenders. MR5 and MR10, with their
authoritarian enforcement, disrupt the civic space,
erasing crucial channels for online expression.
Failure to register will result in blocking, limiting
Indonesians’ ability to access information
freely—a right protected by international human
The coalition stresses that MR5 and its
amendment MR10, with their authoritarian
enforcement against private ESO, seriously
disrupt the civic space, erasing key channels
for individuals to exercise their online freedoms.
Private ESOs that fail to register will be blocked
in Indonesia. To date, major platforms have not
registered or shown any intention to do so. Their
refusal, resulting in service-blocking, substantially
rights treaties and principles.
limits Indonesians’ ability to access information
The coalition emphasises the insufficient public
and principles to which Indonesia is bound.
freely—a right protected by human rights treaties
participation in developing legislation, policies,
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