Digital Citizenship and Safety: Indonesian youths online

Digital Ci)zenship and Safety in Indonesia

The Indonesian Online Generation

Digital Citizenship & Safety

General Characteristics of Indonesia

General Characteristics of the Indonesian Net

Digital Access and Activities

Behavioral Online Trends Safety Risk Recommendations

Table of Contents

■  General Characteristics of Indonesia ■  General Characteristics of the Indonesian Net ■  Digital Access and activities ■  Behavioral Online Trends ■  Safety risks ■  Recommendations

General characteristics of Indonesia






Overview Population (2010): 238 million (1.10% growth/annum) 51% male/ 49% female 48% rural population 300 different ethnic groups Bahasa Indonesia is the official national language (737 living languages) Muslim 86.1%, Protestant 5.7%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 1.8%, other or unspecified 3.4% Literacy (ages 15+): Male: 95.2 Female: 88.8 GDP: 658.31 billion USD in 2010 (growing at approx. 6.3% annually)


Indonesian Net





Behavioral Online Trends Safety Risk Recommendations General Characteristics

of the Indonesian Net

Low technological standing comparatively but rapid technological growth






Mobile Internet Usage- Regional Comparison







Internet Penetration- Regional Comparison (South East Asia)







Environment


DIGITAL ACCESS AND ACTIVITIES






Users Based on Educational Background

Digital Access And Activities






Access Points


There is over 10,000 Internet kiosks in indonesia (2007)






Digital Divide


10-25% ICT penetration in urban areas

CT density is only .25% in rural areas telecommunication penetration in urban areas is 125 times rural penetration.

From 70,000 villages throughout the country, around 43,000 (62%) do not have telecommunication infrastructures, and 12,634 (18%) do not have tele-center or Internet connected centers.






Emailing and Social Networking lead the way online







Activities online- Regional Comparison







Indonesia as social networking capital of the world


Facebook penetration






Facebook Disparities Across Gender and Age







Facebook usage







Blogging


■  As of October 2010, Indonesia has approximately 3.2 million bloggers who post on over 4.1 million blogs.

■  Western platforms used Blogger and Wordpress. Indonesian currently the fourth biggest user of Wordpress.

■  Indonesian platforms used Dagdigdug and Blog Detik.

■  The majority of the Indonesian blogs re-written in Bahasa Indonesia, but an increasing number of bloggers are writing in English

■  Blogging only began to truly gain popularity in 2007. At a blogging conference in 2007, Indonesia’s then Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Mohammad Nuh, declared 27 October ‘National Bloggers’ Day’.






Microblogging


Behavioral Online Trends






Increasing Internet Usage

Behavioral Online Trends

Safety Risks to the Indonesian Net Generation






Safety Risks for Russian Young People Using ICTs

Cyber Piracy Grooming Production of Child Pornography Radicalism on the net

Safety Risk






Piracy

Safety Risk

■  66% piracy rate (2010) ■  86% piracy rate (2009)

- Commercial Value $19,000,000 - ranked 12th in the world in terms of global piracy rates - 19th in the world in terms of global losses






Sexual Explicit Images defined and legislation

Safety Risk

Rancangan Undang-Undang Anti Pornografi dan Pornoaksi 2008 (Bill against Pornography and Porno-Action 2008) Prohibits material depicting:

■  coital acts, foreplay and sexual diversions pertaining to coitus ■  sexual violence ■  masturbation or onanism ■  nudity or illusions/allusions to nudity ■  genitalia

Rancangan Undang-Undang Anti Pornografi dan Pornoaksi defines pornography as:

“any sexual materials created by humans in the form of pictures, sketches, photos, writings, voices, sounds, motion pictures, animations, cartoons, poems, conversations, body movement, or other forms of message communication through various forms of communication media and/ or representations in public that cause sexual arousal and/or violates norms in community.”






Child Pornography/ Grooming

Safety Risk

■  Rancangan Undang-Undang Anti Pornografi dan Pornoaksi 2008 defines children as anyone below the age of 18

■  The law prohibits anyone from engaging, involving, invoking, or entangling children in pornographic activities and forbids the urging/inviting, persuasion/tricking/cheating, employment or utilization, misuse, domineering, coercion or exertion of children into porn or porn related products

■  Komnas Anak received 2,335 reports of commercial sexual exploitation of children, 18% involving children and pornography






Terrorism and the Internet

Safety Risk

From 2007 to 2008, the number of radical websites grew from 15 to 117.

■  Hisbut-tahrir.or.id ■  Hidayatullah.com ■  Infopalestina.com ■  Arrahmah.com ■  Almuhajirun.com ■  Kispa.org ■  Syabab.com ■  Jamaahmuslimin.com ■  Muslimdaily.net ■  Media-islam.or.id






Monitoring the Net

Undang-undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik (Information Act and Electronic Transactions Bill) prohibits the dissemination of information that violates decency through electronic mediums. The Ministry for Information developed ‘nanny’ software, which is available for download from the Ministry’s website. Local sites have begun closing links and images that contained pornographic materials.

■  - kaskus.us, Indonesia’s fifth most popular site, began blocking access to its BB17 service (a social network), which contained pornographic images and links to adult sites.

Recommendations

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