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Indonesia to block web porn access

By John Aglionby in Jakarta

Published: March 25 2008 17:29 | Last updated: March 25 2008 17:29

Indonesia said on Tuesday it would begin to block access to pornographic websites after the country’s parliament passed a wide-ranging law criminalising the act of producing and accessing “immoral” content on the internet.

The law is one of the most stringent limitations on internet access to be adopted by a democracy, as well as one of the strictest in Asia.

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