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Yet it is a day before official opening of the Internet Governance Forum, the pre event of IGF 2013 on Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center/BNDCC yesterday

Monday, October 21, 2013, have entice vast audience. In High Level Leaders Meeting, governments take action to support the implementation of Global International Law. Hence the Civil Societies fight for the human rights. Thus to achieve an ideal level of internet management, sounding of collaborations between stakeholders is very important for the success. Based on experiences by internet activists in India, Pakistan, China, and Indonesia, they conclude the management of internet governance must involve collaboration with governments in developing a fair policies. One of the sources that reflect the internet governance is the usage of social media for social movement, where the social media take part in creating an awareness, recruiting volunteers, supporters mobilizations, public educations, and politic pressure. It is very clear that the step of building a communication bridge between stakeholders is very crucial to ensure a better, fair, and fulfilling aspiration internet governance.

The management of internet governance must involve collaboration between government and civil society organization for a better, fair, and fulfilling aspiration internet governance.

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high level leaders meetingmain hall at 09.30 - 12:00

TALKING in High Level Leaders Meeting

(HLLM) on pre-event IGF, Indonesia Minister of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, H.E. Tifatul Sembiring, stated that the purpose of the IGF are closely related to the acceleration of progress

on Millenium Development Goals. “Indonesia will propose that we as one global community develop more concrete global cyber-ethics”, the Minister said. “These norms are to be common references for all stakeholders to conduct transactions and interactions in cyberspace,” he said, adding that cyber ethics are fundamental to demonstrating respect for the values of different countries, communities, and cultures. The ministers of United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Japan, China, and Republic of Azerbaijan also have one voice that there should be an international collaboration to create an international law for cyberspace to protect countries’ asset, its citizens’ social live and cultures. They believed that as the internet users are growing, threats to a country’s security and sovereignty are growing as well. Therefore from the governments’ perspectives, to support world peace they should consider a more specific way and use a new standard for internet governance. Undersecretary General for the coordination of political and inter-organisational affairs in the

“Global Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Achieving a Safe, Secure and Tolerant CyberSpace: Enabling Growth and Sustainable Development through Cyber Ethics”

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Thomas Gass said,” The role of internet governance is important”. He also stated that the global collaboration could help to create a safe internet 2015 development agenda. The civil society organizations representatives have similar concern about guaranteeing individual human rights and fundamental freedoms (such as freedom of expression) in our collective societal transition to life on the Internet. These rights have been said that this should not change when individuals go onto the internet. It has also been argued that access to knowledge and the right to speech one’s mind freely is essential for pursuing human, social, and economic development. It was said too that surely we need to watch for abuses of these right, that we must not be harming one another and that the rule of law must always be kept in mind and assured, but we also must build a level of trust and mutual understanding about using the Internet so that we can use it freely and openly to best harness its potential. As the President and CEO of ICANN, Mr. Fadi Chehade said, “Public trust in Internet is important. We came to Bali to safe guard this public trust of the Internet”. Policy makers and law enforcement agencies must ensure that these people enjoy the same freedoms online that they do offline. Of course this is a tremendous challenge as these rights certainly differ culturally at local, regional, and national levels. However, all stakeholders need to strengthen efforts to ensure the protection of basic human rights and fundamental freedoms in the online world. As the representatives of Project Director of Internet Democracy, Ms. Anja Kovaks added, “We should emphasize mutual respect of human right. What we actually need is to protect human right first, then we can talk about cyber ethic”.Reporter: Renold & Susan

HELD in Kintamani 1 at 13:00 at pre event day, CSO activists from Thailand, Pakistan, Indonesia, China and India, gather to present and share their experiences and strategy, how to initiate

engagement with their local internet governance dialogue and process. Thai Netizen Network’s activist, Arthit Suriyawongkul shared about cybercrime cases of defamation and false data dissemination. These cases involved citizens who, at the end faced the verdict of 5 until 13 years criminal sentence. To help them, CSO lobbying the government agency for revising the cybercrime law. While from Pakistan, another different cases emerge. Activist from Internet for Social Justice, Shahada Ahmad, shared to audience the challenges that Pakistani activists have to face, the net freedoms issues, ranging from Internet firewall, internet governed by blasphemy laws or anti terrorist laws, moral policing, to curbs on Freedom of Expression (FoE). In Indonesia, according to Donny BU from ICTWatch, is still facing some existing issues, such as unstructured filtering mechanism and defamation online article. But some Indonesian CSO believes, the core challenge is to build the multi stakeholder process, how can CSO engage with the government and industry. A slight different situation happened in India, where multi-stakeholder approach is still on debate. CSO is trying to work with other stakeholders, but they did not have clear idea on multistakeholder concept, such as in policy context. In this country, CSO works mainly in ICT for development issue, but less with privacy and policy related issues. Currently, the attention is in online speech issue. While in China, the CSO stated it is not possible to engage in a totalitarian regime. Although they cannot do the multi-stake holder approach, activist try to train and create public campaign on health and internet. They believe that the more they educate people, the less government could do to oppress them. In conclusion, Southeast Asian countries and beyond face more or less, similar challenges, where government in each countries still have issues on Freedom of Expression. To overcome that, CSO should keep the discussion with government and try to influence the policy process. They also must remember that the engagement on multi-stakeholder practices should not happen in high level, but in all of levels involved, from grassroots to the highest. Reporter: Hersinta

civil society and internet governance: multi-stakeholder engagement practices from southeast asia

Room #7 Kintamani 1 at 13:00-15.30

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NEWSFLASH

The Ideal condition for online content policy and reality are raised in the discussion session “The Establishment of Ideal Online /

Content Business Policy and Strategic Platform “ in pre-event day IGF 2013. Sessions and open discussion was started by Kamilia Manaf as the moderator from EROTICS Indonesia. In open discussion sessions, Wahyudi Dawn of ELSAM explains that internet governance divided into three ideal conditions, digital gaps, freedom of expression and privacy issues. He state that Indonesia still long way to go for the ideal conditions. For instance, the case of blocking of internet sites “Our Voice” by one telecommunication provider and the Government of Indonesia. Therefore there is a must to propose a new rules about blocking, such as several stages of filtering, for example through the complaint stage, then a warning, then take down. Internet governance issues should be carried out within the framework of the fulfillment of human rights, not merely from market oriented. Siti Noor Laila, the Chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights, suggested that to achieve ideal conditions, international law is used to manage the Internet in ensuring the rights of every person. Rights to protect religions, morality, common interests. The positive side of the internet is getting better public services, but the bad side is how to provide a protection to children about pornography, hatred, racial / ethnic propagated by the internet quickly and spread widely, so that Internet governance should be able to bridge the positive impact and negative Internet. Jac SM Kee of Association For Progressive Action Women

- Malaysia expressed in online content there are two different poles of the spectrum, there is limited content (restricted) and scattered content (dispersed). Both of these must be properly managed to not to violate the rights and privacy of others. Governance is best when supported by many stakeholders by participating and provides input. So it is no longer controlled by the private parties only. The discussion expected to create an agreement / proposal of human rights than can be used for a basic lens in looking at the problems of the rights that have been violated in the online world, and further more to be followed by governance on the Internet. Gender perspective will also included in human rights for internet governance rules, considering the number of cases of online infringement on women. At the end of the discussion, Kamilia Manaf hope that internet governance discussions is not only a international level, but also can be done on local level.Reporter: Fiona Suwana

The Establishment of Ideal Online / Content Business Policy and Strategic PlatformKintamani Room 7 starting at 10:00 to 12:00 pm.

During pre event IGF 2013, “Online Free Expression” issue raised by Global Partner Digital, UNESCO and PEN International. Andrew

from Global Partner Digital explained, “The development of internet is like a double-sided swords. It could bring a negative and positive im-pact for life.” For example, internet could make everything faster and easier, especially in communication and data transferring. Currently, the vast development of internet is growing rapidly. For instance, in Africa on 1996, the growth of Internet user reached hundreds, but in 2013, the amount reached over billion users. As the internet become more faster and reachable compared to traditional media, it become difficult to filter its content. For coun-try who wants to do surveillance, Andrew suggests that the execution should be done by the country itself, not by external party. Xianhong Hu from UNESCO stated that they want to be in-volved further in this issue, because they have mandate to “promote free flow of indeed by word and image”. To disseminate the mandate, UNESCO needs the internet. They also are very serious in this internet freedom issue, and this could be seen from many of their activities,

which support this issue, such as their presence in WSIS and In-ternet Governance Forum. Other activities that has been done by UNESCO to support the issue was by publish the report publica-tion titled “Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression” on the 7th IGF in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 2012. Sarah Clarke from PEN International brought the topic on “The Impact of Digital Repression on Writers”. PEN founded since 2000, more and more writers and bloggers were put in jail caused by their writings, which numbers increased rapidly. Moreover, the number of violence on writers increased from 6,6 percent in 2000 to 49,2 percent in 2013. PEN also found surprising facts that there are 15 journalists killed, 92 journalists detained because of digital media issue. Countries with highest total numbers of writers in prison are Turkey (177), Iran (57), Mexico (43), Vietnam (37) and China (32). In September 2012, PEN International release the dec-laration on digital freedom, a concise statement of PEN’s position on threats to free expression in the digital age. Such a declaration will keep the promise of digital media as a means of fulfilling the fundamental right of free expression.Reporter: Okky Alparessi

The last session on pre-event IGF 2013 “Social media for social movement: how civil society can optimize the internet to conduct

online public advocacy of human rights” attracts a lot of participants to join in the discussion. Talking as speakers, Shita Laksmi (HIVOS), Gustaff H. Iskandar (Common Room Indonesia), and Yanuar Nugroho, Manchester University’s research fellow and director from UKP-PPP. The interesting question, is the new media able to act as an alternative for conventional media? This could lead to further discussion, based by the fact that many online media in Indonesia just act as the extension for conventional media. On the other side, the role of social media could be very useful in building awareness, recruitment for movement, mobilisation of supporters, public political pressure, and also political education, as Yanuar explained further.

One of interesting example related to social media movement for building and networking, is “Jalin Merapi” in Yogyakarta, whose online movement for social change also happened in offline public sphere. The discussion went further to conclude that social media is not only the tools for social movement. Shita suggests about two steps that related to social media use for social movements, “First, access to technology can bring lots. Without technology we can’t get transparency, (for example) open data. Second, a collaboration with different multi-stakeholder is important, even though cooperate with the government but it has too.” Equal access for Indonesian citizen and cooperation on internet governance from each multi-stakeholder become essential for civil society to use social media strategically. Reporter: Fiona Suwana

Global Perspective on Online Free ExpressionUluwatu 5 Room 5 starting at 16:00 to 18:00 pm.

Social Media for Social Movement: Linking Online and Offline ActivitiesKintamani 1 Room 7 starting at 16:00 to 18:00 pm.

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The TEAM Maria A. Inkiriwang, Aprida Sihombing, Okky Alparessi, Nadia Maharani, Frenavit Putra, Eri Kasman G.Designer : Olivia Hutagaol, Maria A. InkiriwangEditorial Secretaria t: Mariam Ananda, Mataharitimoer, Anisa Nurlitasari

Board of Advisor : ID-IGF SecretariatManaging Editor : Damar JuniartoNews Coordinator : Mariam AnandaEditor : Aprida Sihombing, Fiona Suwana, Renold Sutadi, Susan WenReporter : Fiona Suwana, Renold Sutadi,

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INTERVIEW

The Indonesia Minister of Communication and Information Technology H. E. Tifatul Sembiring

After attending High Level Leaders Meeting on pre-event IGF 2013, the Indonesia Minister of Communication and Information Technology H.E.

Tifatul Sembiring spoke in press conference yesterday about the events of IGF and the issues regarding communication and information in Indonesia. According to the Minister, IGF 2013 is an achievement that can be proud of and could boost the reputation and credibility of Indonesia in the global views. Also enticing foreign guests and creating a revenue stream to Indonesia. Talking about ethics in cyber, and implementation of internet governance in Indonesia, the minister said that the Indonesia government will not give up to fight the pornography on Internet and Online Gambling sites. The mechanism of government in blocking websites is based on individual complain. About Indonesia internet law/UU ITE that becomes hot issue in Indonesia, the Minister stated that people should be able to distinguish between a critical opinion and a sedition. The Minister hope that though this big event, the government, CSO, business parties, and providers can discuss about the regulation and ethics of internet governance.Reporter: Aprida & Maria

Let’s discuss about the regulation and ethics of internet governance in IGF 2013

Information:International Certificate is only intended for Indonesian participants, it can be obtained at the ID-IGF secretariat room (Kintamani 4) and contact Widhi.