Block Pornography Spend Hundreds of Million Dollar Cost

Jakarta - Indonesian Internet Service Providers Association (APJII) admitted to not fool around in an attempt to suppress the negative content on the internet. They are even willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.

It was presented by Sammy Pangerapan, Chairman of the JW Marriot Hotel APJII. "For the filtering is working with the Foundation Newsletters APJII archipelago. We provide the infrastructure, but those who manage," said Sammy.

There is also infrastructure Sammy is, the provision of 5 units for USD 58 000 server (USD 547 million) which is placed on the Indonesia Internet Exchange as the center APJII user data traffic. That does not include operating expenses that must be paid each month.

"There is a fee that, but I can not mention how many," said Sammy.

Operasinal funds are compensated for the Newsletter which was responsible for operations. Starting from the filtering mechanism, maintenance, to update the database to block all domains that do not match.

DNS is managed by the Foundation Newsletters Newsletters archipelago is already used by a number of large companies to make filters, one of Research In Motion (RIM) to perform filtering on the device BlackBery in Indonesia.

It has also become one of the considerations APJII to create a separate server and are willing to disburse hundreds of millions of dollars, so that the data traffic they are not mixed with any other party involved using Newsletters. Moreover, this control can also be used by anyone for free.