Rudiantara, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, who met Tuesday with Telegram App co-founder Pavel Durov declared that “we have allowed running Telegram in our country.”
There are a lot of other social networking sites, messaging apps and file and video transfer systems are used Indonesia, he said, particularly mentioned Facebook and Google as programs that could be examined in the “near future.”
Earlier this period, the bureau said it was planning to shut down Telegram in Indonesia, where it has numerous million users if it seemed to develop methods to block illegal content including pro-Islamic State group conversation groups.
As a partial step, it asked internet businesses in the world’s most populated Muslim country to block access to 11 web address allowing the web version of Telegram. Durov excused for missing to quickly respond to the Indonesian government’s demands for apparent horror content to be tackled, blaming a miscommunication.
Rudiantara, who uses one sign, said the ministry and Telegram will put in an area approved operating procedures that improve the capability to “address the repugnant content in Telegram.” The blocking actions against web Telegram could be unbanned next week, he said.
Suspected protesters arrested by Indonesian policemen have told officials that they talked with each other via Telegram and received orders and controls to carry out attacks through the app, including from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian with the Islamic State organization in Syria accused of organizing several initiatives in the past 18 months.
Critics of the government’s intimidation said it would give more sense to watch the IS conversation groups for possible knowledge than banning the app.
Durov told journalists there would a line of close communication between the bureau and top people in Telegram but also said he wouldn’t have a visit to Indonesia if the administration had made any requests that would require Telegram’s encryption to be compromised.
“The basis of Telegram is a 100 percent promise of encryption. This is why our organization exists,” he said.
“We’ve considered ways to block the public channels open for the propaganda of terrorism, which is something that we are dedicated to doing globally, and particularly Indonesia,” Durov said.
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