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Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia by babypuncher on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:29PM (#32284037)
The linked article is not in English. Anyone care to provide an FL:DR?
Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia by richardjam73 on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:54PM (#32284142)
The Indonesian government has a register of internet services that can operate in the country. If you are not in the register you are blocked in Indonesia. If you don't submit to any government requests they can kick you off the register. For instance if Twitter does not provide the government the details of a specific user then they can be blocked.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/indonesias-proposed-on...

Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia by sk0g on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:59PM (#32284174)
Oh I thought Australia was bad. Indonesia might as well just have permanent read-only access to the companies they allow, should the companies give in. I'm going to guess these rights will be abused big time for favours and corrupt government employees grabbing data for money. What wonderful times we live in.
Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia by altilunium on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:55PM (#32284148)
In short : any foreign based online services will be blocked if they dont formally register to the Indonesian goverment.

Today, the goverment is blocking the unregistered top 100 traffic online service. But, they will continue to do so, to the top 1000 and top 10.000 and so forth.

Article 4 (1) : The obligation of Private Scope PSE to register as referred to in Article 2 paragraph (1) also applies to Private Scope PSE which is established under the laws of another country or which is permanently domiciled in another country but: provides services within the territory of Indonesia, conducts business in Indonesia, and/or its Electronic System is used and/or offered in the territory of Indonesia

Article 7 (2) : In the event that the Private Scope PSE does not register, the Minister shall impose an administrative sanction in the form of Termination of Access to the Electronic System (access blocking).