Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Got porn? You will now, ever since the much-vaunted block on a host of Web sites deemed offensive by the minister of communications dissipated sometime in the past month.

Some of the sites blocked by six major Internet service providers on the eve of Ramadan, including Playboy.com, 17tahun.us, youporn.com and porn.com, are now as accessible as the housewives who answer the door for the proverbial pizza delivery guy.

The formerly banned sites were chosen based on lists of most-accessed sites on the ministry's filtering system as well as from Alexa.com, which ranks Web site visits. Tifatul Sembiring, the minister of communications and information technology, at the time of the ban boasted to having censored 80 percent of "offensive" Web sites.

But on Thursday, Gatot Dewa Broto, a spokesman from the ministry, conceded the campaign against pornography "still has loopholes here and there," adding that efforts were ongoing and evaluated monthly.

"Quantitatively, many of those porn sites are still accessible since they have been reworded, and all the feedback we receive will be forwarded to the Internet service providers," he told the Jakarta Globe. He added the ministry would also seek clarification from the ISPs on "their commitment to continue blocking the sites" that it deems offensive.

Hadi Supeno, chairman of the Indonesian Commission for Child Protection (KPAI), said the campaign for a pornography-free Internet was a Herculean task because it was a "complex and deeply rooted" problem. He said one of the main shortcomings of the program was government regulations that were "not bold enough to wage war in blocking porn sites."

"I think it requires a collective, supportive policy from the government, not just from the Communications Ministry," he said, adding that the government should also be prepared to seriously negotiate with ISPs to enforce the ban.

Hadi said the Communications Ministry was taking the right approach on the issue, but needed more support from other arms of the government. "We also need more human resources such as IT experts to deal with this problem, and this is something we lack," he said.

However, the best protection for children and teenagers against pornography still came from family, Hadi said, which meant parents needed to be Internet literate.

"They're the ones who can provide the best guidance for their children on what makes for acceptable viewing on the Internet," he said. "The government should also be more proactive in providing [home-based] filtering software."