Blocking Voa-Islam.Com Website: An Appropriate Regulation or Human Rights Violation

Masyrofah, Nahrowi, Sahrul Adam, Tarsius Murwadji

2018

Abstract

The Ministry of Communications and Informatics blocked eleven sites containing negative content. The eleven sites are voa-Islam.com, nahimunkar.com, kiblat.net, bisyarah.com, dakwahtangerang.com, Islampos.com, suaranews.com, izzamedia.com, gensyiah.com, muqawamah.com, abuzubair.net. Voa-Islam.com highlights as a radical Islamic site. This blocking takes place in 2016 and reap the pros and cons. The party that proclaims it as one of the government's steps to ward off radicalism and that is contrary to the action The Ministry of Communications and Informatics which contain freedom of expression for Human Rights. This paper asserts that regulation can counteract the proper understanding of radicalism through media, especially online media. The Indonesian government through the communication and informatics authorities is responsible for disciplining and suppressing radical sites. The results of the analysis found that the reason for the implementation of the regulation of blocking of Voa-Islam through Ministerial Regulation No. 19 of 2014 to protect the people of Indonesia and they will understand that radicalism related to the concept of public security which is the responsibility of the government. The role of government in conducting direct control of online media products is radical Islamic site. The urgency of blocking is to counter radicalism amongst the people who are behind the blocking of Voa-Islam.com's website because it has negative content that can affect a person's thinking in the act of radicalism and acts of terrorism in Indonesia. The impact of deregulation and liberalization of this regulation is contrary to the freedom of opinion guaranteed by the constitution. The basis of blocking of sites that are deemed to contain negative content is of course referred to in the ITE Act (Information and Electronic Transactions) no. 19 of 2016

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Masyrofah., Nahrowi., Adam S. and Murwadji T. (2018). Blocking Voa-Islam.Com Website: An Appropriate Regulation or Human Rights Violation.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 3019-3028. DOI: 10.5220/0009944330193028

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Masyrofah and Nahrowi and Sahrul Adam and Tarsius Murwadji},
title={Blocking Voa-Islam.Com Website: An Appropriate Regulation or Human Rights Violation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={3019-3028},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009944330193028},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Blocking Voa-Islam.Com Website: An Appropriate Regulation or Human Rights Violation
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Masyrofah.
AU - Nahrowi.
AU - Adam S.
AU - Murwadji T.
PY - 2018
SP - 3019
EP - 3028
DO - 10.5220/0009944330193028