Putu Sayoga, WSJ, The Indonesian Village Making Viral YouTube videos Net content industry in Indonesia. Photo essay.

Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Maydan, IMTF, To Tweet or not to Tweet: Twitter Sociality and Muslim Communal Ethics "Having been on Twitter for more than a decade, Pak Wiryantoro is fully aware that Twitter is swarming with bots who ...

New and noted. I haven't listened to this yet (will do later today!)

"In this episode of Pretty Good Podcast, Imam Ardhianto, lecturer and chair of the University of Indonesia’s Media, Culture, and Research Center for Anthropological Studies, discusses the transformation of religious social media movements in Indonesia and how they shaped ...

Ali Raza, InsideBitcoins, Indonesian government plans to unveil a crypto bourse by the end of 2022 "The Indonesian government plans to launch a crypto bourse by the end of the year. A report by a top government official has ...

Antonia Timmerman, Rest of World, Indonesia will enforce laws on content moderation with tight response time and harsh fines, documents show, 16 Aug 2022

"Rest of World obtained internal presentations from the communications ministry that show platforms will be ...

Claire-Marie Hefner, Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge: Indonesian Muslim schoolgirls online, American Ethnologist, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1–15, ISSN 0094-0496, online, ISSN 1548-1425 "In Indonesian Islamic boarding schools (pesantren), access to digital media is strictly regulated, ...

Antonia Timmerman, Rest of World, How to buy a hijab in Jakarta "Shariah-compliant e-commerce is a $160 million business in Indonesia, but compliance is no easy task."

Next Shark, Facebook, Twitter and Google escape Indonesia ban by complying with imposed registration at last minute "Facebook, Twitter and Google have registered for Indonesia’s new licensing rules that empower local authorities to remove undesirable ...

Reuters, Indonesia bar chain shut after blasphemy charges over drinks promotion "In a social media post that was later deleted, the chain offered a free bottle of gin for men named Mohammad and women named Maria every Thursday." Six people have been charged ...

Here's a discussion on some of my work and associated theoretical approaches on CIEs.

Paelani Setia, Islam di Dunia Maya dalam Perspektif Gary R. Bunt, Jurnal Iman dan Spiritualitas, 2:2, https://doi.org/10.15575/jis.v2i2.18174 ...

Insider, "Teenagers in Indonesia are jumping in front of moving trucks for a TikTok challenge, according to local reports. At least two have died doing so.", 8 June 2022 "Teenagers in Indonesia have been jumping in front ...

Reuters, Singapore denies entry to Indonesian cleric, cites extremism concerns "On Somad’s Instagram page, which has 6.5 million followers, the cleric posted a photograph of himself before leaving Singapore in ...

AFP Factcheck, Social media posts falsely claim the Moon 'was once split in two'

"One picture in the collage shows the Moon's surface, with an arrow pointing to a purported crack seen on the Moon.

"Text superimposed on the picture reads: "This is the location of the split ...

Euro News, Indonesians pray for Ramadan in Southeast Asia's largest mosque

Prayers in Isqitlal mosque streamed on YouTube

New Straits Times, Izwan Ismail, #TECH: Online way to learn the Quran "Nik Azizan has been using a new approach in reaching out to the Muslim community through Bigo Live, a leading live-streaming platform to keep people connected in a positive, healthy ...

Al Jazeera, Why are Indonesians on social media so supportive of Russia? "According to Yohanes Sulaiman, a lecturer in international relations at Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani in Bandung, part of the issue lies in a dislike of ...

Nikkei, Indonesia's new guidelines for quieter mosques spark controversy "Indonesia's internet community seemed to be divided on the new guidelines.
""It's ok to regulate using outside speaker for call to prayer. ...

Yosi Winosa, Salaam Gateway, Investments will be made in cloud computing, Internet of Things ..., 10 Feb 2022 Discussion: this sector is part of a shariah compliant fund.

Kirana Aisyah, Open Gov Asia, Indonesian Islamic Schools Embrace Digital Technology "The Ministry of Religious Affairs has made efforts to help madrasahs in Indonesia to adopt digital technology. In 2021, the ministry prepared the Madrasah Affirmation ...

Fintech Futures, Aladin Bank turns to Google Cloud for Islamic banking tech innovation, 27 Jan 2022 "The bank says it “aims to provide ground-breaking Shariah-based digital banking services, by providing technology-led ...

Antara News, Preparing Indonesians to be fully digitally literate

" World Bank data shows that Indonesia is experiencing a digital talent gap as the nation needs at least 9 million digital talents in 15 years, or an average of 600 thousand ...

Antonia Timmerman and Meaghan Tobin, Rest of World, Influencers have a new racket in Indonesia: investment advice, 20 Dec 2021

"Indonesia’s online influencer culture, which sees YouTubers promoting a controversial government jobs policy ...

IslamPos, Internet dan Pendidikan Islam, Pengaruh, Manfaat dan Sisi Negatifnya

Discussion on Islam, education and the internet in Indonesia.

Ng Jun Seng, Today, The Big Read: Jemaah Islamiyah emerges from the shadows, playing the long game

"Assoc Prof Ramakrishna said that youths are particularly vulnerable to radicalisation. In an age where they are looking for ...

Andreas Harsono, HRW, The Internet, Islamism and Repressive Regulations Pressure Indonesian Media

"Agus Sudibyo, a member of Indonesia’s Press Council, is worried about the state of journalism in Indonesia. He just published ...

Sydney Allen, Global Voices, How ‘cyber troops’ influence Indonesia's politics, policies, and media landscape

"Cyber troops are teams dedicated to swaying and manipulating public opinion through coordinated internet ...

Anthony Cuthbertson, Independent, Bitcoin halal? Muslims in Indonesia told not to buy as crypto declared haram, 11 Nov 2021 "The National Ulema Council, which serves as the country’s authority on Shariah compliance, ...

Global Voices Online, Indonesian court allows internet blocking amid social unrest, 9 Nov 2021 "On October 27, Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled that it is constitutionally acceptable for the Indonesian government to block and ...

Reuters, Indonesian internet blocks amid social unrest lawful, court rules, 27 Oct 2021

"Indonesia's decision to block internet access during periods of social unrest was lawful, its constitutional court ...

Joy Harjanto, Rest of World, Indonesia’s government-funded influencers are a bad influence, 6 Oct 2021

"The Indonesian influencer economy will only continue to grow. While over 70% of Indonesia’s population uses the internet, the country’s internet penetration rate lags ...

Meaghan Tobin, Adi Renaldi and Jihan Basyah, Rest of World, Indonesia’s tech giants are battling to bring roadside stalls online

"“This is the first time that the mom-and-pop retailer, the small store (warungs), actually has a smartphone in their hand,” Ula’s ...

Antonia Timmerman, Rest of World, How one coder became Indonesia’s misinformation guru

"Influence operations — bot-driven, automated, paid-for messaging — are ingrained in Indonesian social media, used liberally by the government, the opposition, and corporate marketing alike. They ...

SCMP, Impoverished Indonesian community starts making money as a ‘YouTube village’

"Siswanto, a 38-year-old Indonesian who found success on YouTube, is now teaching his neighbours how to start and grow audiences on their ...

CNN Indonesia, Menag Bangun Cyber Islamic University, 100 Persen Online

On the proposal for a Cyber Islamic University in Indonesia.

Pleased to see this new issue of CyberOrient (Vol 15, Issue 1), a special issue on 'Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia’s Islamic Digital Realms' edited by Martin Slama and James Bourk Hoesterey:

Cyberorient PDF

Eva Nisa, Cyber Orient, Online Halal Dating, Ta’aruf, and the Shariatisation of Matchmaking among Malaysian and Indonesian Muslims

"Halal ...

SCMP, In Indonesia, anti-vaccine messages come with a dose of religion, anti-Chinese sentiment and conspiracy theories

"The report, written by Yatun Sastramidjaja and Amirul Adli Rosli at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak ...

SCMP, Eight in 10 young Indonesians risk being radicalised online. One man is leading the battle for their hearts and minds

"Muh Taufiqurrohman, a senior researcher at the Jakarta-based Centre for Radicalism ...

The Economist: The Intelligence, “We see this wave of digital censorship sweeping through Asia” — Indonesia joins a worrying trend

"AS GOVERNMENTS ACROSS South-East Asia crimp online ...

Techrepublic, The state of digital transformation in Indonesia

"In late 2020, we fielded a Forrester Analytics Business Technographics® survey in two key Southeast Asian markets to understand the current state of ...

SCMP, Indonesia’s self-taught dental workers say they fill a need in society – just not in Hong Kong. There is an online dimension to this, as the 'practitioners' have used YouTube as part of their self-education. ...

Sky News, Moving video shows crew of sunken Indonesian submarine singing farewell song

"The video, filmed a few weeks ago, shows the sailors singing ...

Max Daly, Vice, Drug Smugglers Are Being Sentenced to Death via Zoom Drug Smugglers Are Being Sentenced to Death via Zoom

"Harm Reduction International (HRI), which published its annual report into global drug war death penalties on Wednesday, ...

Sky News, Facebook and Google plan new undersea cables to connect southeast Asia and America

"The cables, named Echo and Bifrost, will be the first to directly connect North America to some of the main parts ...

Fanny Potkin and Anshuman Daga, Reuters, In Southeast Asian internet battle, Sea's rise sends rivals scrambling

"At stake is a slice of the more than 400 million internet users in Southeast Asia’s digital economy, which is estimated to triple to $309 ...

SCMP, Indonesian YouTuber Nikmatul Rosidah cooks up online fame with stories of family life in Hong Kong

" Rosidah now has more than 1.4 million subscribers to a YouTube channel started as a hobby before it grew ...

Al Jazeera, Indonesia: Lessons from the online classroom "Jakarta-based newspaper journalist Agnes Theodora, 29, who together with 12 other reporters, has given more than 400 used smartphones and data packages from donors to hundreds ...

Andrew Deck & Sri Kusmaitia, Rest of World, Digital Banking, Now Halal, 8 Sept 2020

Another catch-up article, well-worth reading: "New fintech startups must present themselves before the Indonesian Ulema Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, or MUI, in Bahasa Indonesian), composed ...