Minister of Communication and Information, Rudiantara said that currently there is a lot of negative content circulating on social media. According to him, the steps currently being taken by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics to overcome this are closing the accounts that spread the content.
“Yesterday I met with Commission I, and the current content is a lot of negative things, damaging relationships with one another. There is something bad on social media that gives us the authority, of course closing the account," he said at a press conference in Jakarta on Monday (05/06/2017) quoted from Qibla
However, if negative content and bad content spreader accounts cannot be controlled, Facebook will be closed and blocked, he judged that this action was in accordance with the law.
"But if necessary, Kominfo will close the organizers. If we now do account restrictions, it is possible that Facebook is closed. If it is needed later, yes, it must be," he said.
Furthermore, Rudy said he would establish a relationship with the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) regarding the recently issued social media fatwa. Because, the one who knows in detail about the fatwa is MUI.
"God willing, I will return to MUI to jointly follow up on this fatwa," he concluded.[]