Internet players to set up Internet body
Internet players to set up Internet body
Fitri Wulandari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Several business associations and local universities are
preparing to set up an independent Internet body to help develop
and improve the system within the local Internet industry.
Named the Indonesian Internet Agency (LII), the body is
expected to work with various sectors, including non-governmental
organizations and the government, to create regulations and
policies on the Internet industry.
"Our Internet industry is not going anywhere and remains
undeveloped. This is partly because of the absence of policies,"
Heru Nugroho, the chairman of the Indonesian Internet Service
Providers Association (APJII), said on Wednesday.
Budi Rahardjo of the country code Top Level Domain Indonesia
(ccTLD-ID), a body which distributes and registers domain names
in the country, said the organization would be similar to the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a
broad coalition of Internet business, technical, academic and
user communities.
Founded in the U.S. in 1998, ICANN works to coordinate four
key functions of the Internet: the management of domain systems,
the allocation of IP address space, assignment of protocol
parameters and the management of the root server system.
"We want to try to regulate ourselves first so that we can put
the industry in order. To do that, we'll try to do what others
have done so far," Budi said.
The LII, which is in the preparatory stage, is expected to be
fully established next year, pending approval from the
government.
Marcelus Adiwinata of Indonesian Internet Society added that
while many IT or Internet associations had been mushrooming,
their existence had hardly contributed to the development of the
country's IT and Internet industry.
"Instead, their interests often conflict because they go their
own way," Marcelus remarked.
Budi said one advantage of the future LII would be that it
would help customers have a secure Internet domain to avoid cyber
crimes.
"By regulating our domain name system, we can minimize cyber
crime such as pornography or cyberfraud. Further, we can ask all
community members to act on cyber crime," he added.
So far, some of the groups that have committed to establishing
LII include APJII, the Telematics Community (Mastel), ccTLD, the
Indonesian Software Association (Aspiluki), Yogyakarta's Gadjah
Mada University and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).
The body will have six supporting organizations, that is At
Large Membership (ALM) for individuals, Government Advisory
Committee (GAC), Non-Governmental Advisory Committee (NGAC), the
Address Support Organization (ASO) for drafting policy on IP
distribution, the Domain Name Supporting Organization for
drafting policies on domain name distribution, and Protocol
Supporting Organization (PSO), a technical unit related to the
Internet system.