Zaheer Merchant – Indonesia's government has been listening in on people's private chats in WhatsApp groups, the South China Morning Post reports.

Jakarta (Antara) – The Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) assessed that the internet in Indonesia is not child-friendly yet since cigarette advertisements could

Jakarta – The Indonesian police plan to conduct cyber patrols of WhatsApp groups.

Christian Lee, Jakarta – Communications and Information Technology Minister Rudiantara said the police should be given the power to monitor group chats on the WhatsApp messaging platfo

Jakarta (Antara) – For security reasons, the Communication and Informatics Ministry will require social media operators to make it mandatory for customers to provide cellular numbers w

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Communication and Informatics Minister Rudiantara expressed his support for the National Police's decision to monitor public Whatsapp message gr

Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko has expressed approval of a plan for the police to monitor groups on the WhatsApp messaging application.

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The deputy chairperson of the House of Representatives' (DPR) Commission I, Golkar Party politician Satya Widya Yudha, supports a plan by the National Police (P

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has informed the public that it might limit access to social media yet again to curb misinformation during the first presidential

There is a growing body of research on the correlations between social media use and mental health, and most of that research suggests the relationship between the two is not good.

Jakarta (Antara) – Communication and Informatics Ministry (Kominfo) is mulling possible regulation to control the permit of a virtual private network (VPN) after the service widely use

Jakarta – Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara has called Indonesians to uninstall virtual private networks (VPN) from their devices after the government ended its move t

Jakarta (Antara) – The Communication and Informatics Ministry will impose sanctions on social media and web operators who do not delete hoaxes on their pages.

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) believes that the restrictions on social media, including WhatsApp messenger, have been detrimental to the public.

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – Portal CupoNation Indonesia recently analyzed the fiber optics internet speeds among a number of Southeast Asia countries including Indonesia, which perfo

Jakarta – MA, who successfully hacked the official website of the General Elections Commission (KPU), has received an offer to work for the National Police, his mother claimed.

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – As Prabowo Subianto holds his ground and refuses to concede defeat in the presidential election, his supporters are rallying for him by trending hashtags on socia

Muhammad Asad – Of late, we've seen many incidents of intolerance throughout Indonesia, especially hatred on social media over religion.

Facebook has banned political advertisements from outside Indonesia ahead of the country's presidential poll, just weeks after being heavily criticised by the European Union for not do

Jakarta – The government has slammed tech giants for failing to filter content that it says has contributed to the spread of misinformation on social media.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Over 300 people crowded the lobby of telecommunications company Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) in South Jakarta at 8:30 a.m. on Friday.

Jakarta – A bill proposed by media organizations aims to tighten control over negative content proliferated via social media, a growing problem that threatens social harmony in Indones

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia was hit by a record 12.9 million cyberattacks last year, according to official data, and experts agree that such attacks will increase in 2019 as bu

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's digital economy has soared over the past five years, but the government's restrictions on investment and innovation could stifle growth, experts h

Jakarta – Online marketplace behemoth Bukalapak experienced a steep ratings drop on the Apple and Google app stores over the weekend in the latest case of social media backlash that ex

Jakarta – The National Police said on Friday that a hundred people lost tens of millions of rupiah in a sextortion scheme in which victims were tricked into sending sexual images that

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesian social media activist Permadi Arya has threatened to file a Rp 1 trillion (US$71.68 million) lawsuit against Facebook after the tech giant

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Accenture, a Fortune 500 business consultancy, has estimated that Indonesia's e-commerce market may grow from US$27 billion last year to $300 billion by 2025,

Almost everybody has to spend a huge chunk of their lives on the internet nowadays to do everything from work to socializing to shopping.

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Jakarta – These days, it is almost unthinkable to leave home without Google Maps.

Jakarta – Petitions on environmental issues dominated Indonesia's digital movements in 2018 with the number of people signing them having increased by 17 times compared to last year, ac

Jakarta – A challenge on social media related to the 2019 presidential election has led to a death of one man in Sampang regency, East Java.

Taufiq Siddiq, Budiarti Utami Putri, Francisca Christy Romana, Jakarta – Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Sociologist Sunyoto Usman said the recent deadly feud triggered by a heated online

Banda Aceh (AFP) – A village in a conservative region of Indonesia is pulling the plug on wireless Internet after children were caught accessing porn sites instead of going to Quran stu

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Village leaders of Curee Baroh in Simpang Mamplam district, Bireun regency, Aceh, have issued a circular that calls on all cafes to remove access to free Wi-Fi,

A village in the Indonesian province of Aceh – the only region in Indonesia with special autonomy to enact religious bylaws – is saving its children from the worldly distractions that a

Jakarta – Indonesians experience some of the poorest quality online video compared with other Southeast Asian countries, a recent study has shown.

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Forty-year-old L, a Central Jakarta resident, wiped the tears that were streaming down her face as she recalled her experience being intimidated by an app-based

Jakarta – The presence of social media has helped people connect with each other, including new friends, but in Depok, West Java, it also plays a big part in divorce.

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's presence on social media far outweighs that of his sole opponent, Prabowo Subianto, barely a month before the republic's election campaign se

If you're a Jakartan who has upgraded to a 4G phone in the last few years and are wondering why your connection is still so sluggish, you're not alone.

Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kemkominfo) has confirmed that they have officially blocked access to Tik Tok, an app used for making and sharing short

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – A researcher at the Center for Terrorism and Social Conflict Studies in the University of Indonesia, Solahudin, said social media quickens the process of r

James Massola & Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Facebook executives have endured a hostile grilling from Indonesian MPs, as the company faced threats of an audit or a shut down over the C

Jakarta – Indonesia has blocked microblogging site Tumblr after complaints about pornographic content on hundreds of accounts, the communications ministry said on Tuesday.

Padang (Antara) – Head of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) Suhardi Alius warned the public about the outspread of radicalism on the social media.

Ed Davies, Cindy Silviana, Jakarta – Indonesia has blocked more than 70,000 websites displaying "negative" content such as pornography or extremist ideology in the first month of using

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Nine social media and messaging app companies signed an agreement on Wednesday initiated by the government to combat fake news and hate speech on their platfor

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara said on Wednesday that the government would use an artificial intelligence tool to crack down on websites co