Thousands Mock Hungarys Viktor Orban in Ironic Protest Trump Visits Wounded Soldiers. The government also restricted internet access in the capital Jakarta in 2019 after deadly protests erupted following a divisive presidential election.Īrif Nur Fikri, from civil society organisation Kontras, said he was concerned the arbitrary restriction of local media could recur. Moves THAAD to South Korean Site Amid Tensions With North. (Bitcluster) On Thursday, Bitcoin mining suffered a hit after the internet in Kazakhstan was shut down due to increasing unrest. A bitcoin mine in the Siberian industrial city Norilsk. The sometimes violent 2019 demonstrations broke out in a number of cities from after Papuan students on Java island were allegedly taunted with racist slurs and some demonstrators called for Papua to be independent from Indonesia.Īccess to some local media, including the Suara Papua website, was blocked during the protests. Kazakhstan’s internet has been shut down amid unrest, subsequently, global bitcoin mining power was down 14 this week. Indonesian communications ministry spokesman Dedy Permadi said the government would study the ruling, which is final and binding, and use it to guide its decision to "prevent the spread of internet content that violates the law".
Indonesian authorities have drafted thousands more troops into the region and further limited access to foreigners as demonstrations entered their third week. "This could threaten our freedom of press, and eventually our democracy could backslide," said Sasmito Madrim, chairman of Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists, which was part of the coalition of civil society organisations that filed last year's judicial review. JAKARTA: An internet blackout in Indonesias Papua province will remain in place until violent pro-independence protests have been quelled, security chiefs have warned. Flashback: NetBlocks spotted a similar crackdown in Cuba in November 2020, following separate protests over artistic. (CNN)- Libya is the latest North African country to experience internet trouble as democratic protests continue to sweep the region. As of Tuesday it said VPNs were working to help evade the government crackdown.
But such moves were "within reason", given the threat to public order, and were in line with Indonesia's constitution, said Constitutional Court judge Enny Nurbaningsih, one of a panel of nine sitting judges, seven of whom ruled in the government's favour on Wednesday. According to NetBlocks, Cuba's national internet service provider blocked access to WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram as well as some Telegram servers.
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