My favorite websites were blocked the other day (imgur and reddit). When I tried to access them a little message popped up up saying that I could call the provider if I thought it was blocked wrongly. Since neither of the sites contain pornographic material (which is always blocked in Indonesia) I called up the provider and asked them to unblock it. The woman on the phone said the block had come from the government and that there was nothing she could do. I used a proxy to go on reddit and try to find out what had happened. Turns out that a conservative Muslim minister (Tifatul Sembiring) was about to go out of power and decided to fuck up the internet before he got ousted. It also had a link to an article about the politician that showed various tweets and statements from him saying he was too pure to ever touch a woman who wasn't a family member of his. He then accused Michelle Obama of forcing him to shake hands with him when she visited Indonesia. A video showed him jabbing someone else out of the way in order to shake her hand. Since I found all this out through reddit, the block probably had nothing to do with pornography. It was just a political attempt to choke free press.
Sembiring came up again later that week in one of my lessons. According to my students he is part of the same muslim union that banned Lady Gaga from entering the country because of satanic symbols in her performances. He was also instrumental in jailing a an Indonesian singer after a personal sex tape was found on his computer by someone who stole it from him. Then my students showed me images on the computer of 'Paris Hilton-y' type Indonesian celebrities in scantily clad clothes next to campaign posters. In some of the photos they looked like they were in bars. The women were very popular on Indonesian TV. Can't help but think if they got some decent porn in they could get rid of that shit.