Telegram is a free Russian-designed messaging app that lets people exchange messages, photos and videos in groups of up to 5,000 people. - AFP/file
Jakarta (AFP) - Indonesia has blocked web-based access to a popular messaging service and threatened a full ban on the app due to its "terrorism" content, the government said.
The communications ministry said in a statement that "so many channels in the (Telegram) service contain radicalism and terrorism... encouragement and tips to assemble bombs or launch attacks" that it needed to block it.
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