Cyber Bullies in the Crosshairs

The government and the DPR agreed to categorize cyber bullying as a crime. Some worry the definition could be interpreted unfairly.

September 6, 2016

It took five hours for Henry Subyakto and his team to agree on the Indonesian term. "We use perundungan' instead of cyberbullying', said Henry, the chairman of the government team for the revision of the Electronic Information and Transaction Law, on Thursday last week. Perundungan is the Indonesian word for the act of bullying.

Henry and peers introduced the term at a hearing with the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission I, which oversees infor

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