Tribe seeks net shutdown


AN indigenous community in Indonesia has requested an Internet blackout in their area to minimise the “negative impact” of the online world, officials said.

The Baduy, a community of 26,000 people in Banten province on Java island, divide themselves into an outer group that partly adopts technology, and a sacred inner group that shuns the trappings of contemporary life.

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