Outcry over the Communications and Information Ministry’s decision to block access to eight popular electronic services providers (ESPs) and its controversial licensing policy continues, particularly on social media, even after it temporarily opened access to payment gateway platform PayPal on Sunday.

A total of eight ESPs, including Paypal, Yahoo and online game platforms such as Steam, Dota, Counter-Strike, Epic Games and Origin.com, as well as data platform Xandr.com, were all blocked on Saturday for failing to meet last week’s deadline of the licensing policy.

The requirement to register is stipulated in a controversial 2020 ministerial regulation on private ESPs, which also grants the ministry the right to block access to digital platforms if they failed to register by the July 20 deadline.

Source:
courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by Dio Suhenda and Nur Janti (The Jakarta Post)

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