UU ITE set for revision? (Feb 12-19)

Government admits faults of controversial IT law

Hello Coconauts,

Indonesia theoretically guarantees freedom of speech, but we’ve all had to self-censor one way or another in our online interactions due to the always lurking threat posed by the Information and Electronic Transactions Act (UU ITE).

The law contains numerous ambiguous articles criminalizing hate speech, defamation, blasphemy, and other mo…