The Tenor GIF application is seen on a mobile phone screen in this illustration photo November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration
JAKARTA: Indonesia said on Nov 7 it would summon representatives of messaging services and search engines, including Alphabet Inc’s Google, to demand they remove obscene content, a day after threatening to shut down WhatsApp Messenger.
The Internet is already partly censored in Indonesia, but the latest steps mark an escalation against a background of growing conservatism in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.
