Blocking Fitna
Starting last week, the government blocked all websites featuring the film Fitna. Internet users are losing hundreds of orders for goods worth up to hundreds of millions of rupiah every day.
April 15, 2008
SUGENG Riyadi didn’t have anything to do with the film Fitna, but he certainly became a victim of that video created by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Because the government has blocked access to websites which feature Fitna, this physics teacher at Madrasah Aliyah in Solo can no longer teach his students through the YouTube multimedia website.
Sugeng is a progressive teacher. He uses the Internet to introduce lessons on the oscilloscope—a
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