The bans have been lifted after many complaints, especially from businesses who rely on YouTube and multiply.com for advertising. Instead, the ISPs will focus on banning individual pages that are causing offence. This could easily be a solution to Indonesia's unemployment problems because this approach to the problem will necessarily employ massive teams of people working in shifts, night and day, scouring the Internet for offending pages. Additional teams could be employed tracking down Indonesian bloggers who are causing trouble in the blogosphere.
Latest laugh in town concerned a very popular music group called Slank who wrote a song four years ago about the members of the House of Representatives, accusing most of them of being a bunch of crooks. Some of the current crop of members had recently begun considering legal action against the group after they performed the song at the Corruption Eradication Commission's Jakarta office last week. Unfortunately, one of them has been caught accepting a bribe and so the prospect of litigation has suddenly evaporated.
As writer for the The Jakarta Post commented:
The problem with our lawmakers is they are not used to critics. Nearly half of them date back to the New Order era, when lawmakers were protected from criticism by the heavy-handed tactics of the regime.
Latest laugh in town concerned a very popular music group called Slank who wrote a song four years ago about the members of the House of Representatives, accusing most of them of being a bunch of crooks. Some of the current crop of members had recently begun considering legal action against the group after they performed the song at the Corruption Eradication Commission's Jakarta office last week. Unfortunately, one of them has been caught accepting a bribe and so the prospect of litigation has suddenly evaporated.
As writer for the The Jakarta Post commented:
The problem with our lawmakers is they are not used to critics. Nearly half of them date back to the New Order era, when lawmakers were protected from criticism by the heavy-handed tactics of the regime.
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