Why is Tik Tok application blocked by the government?

The Government of Indonesia officially blocked the Tik Tok application because the application was considered a lot of violations.

"Pornography, religious harassment, a lot of violations," said Director General of Applications Informatics Kominfo, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan to BBC Indonesia, July 3, 2018.

Semuel explains that Tik Tok has been blocked since Tuesday afternoon (03/07).

"As a user generated social media application, [Tik Tok] should have mechanisms on how to create content standards and how to prevent and resolve when there is content that violates our laws," Semuel said.

According to him, Kominfo has contacted Tik Tok to ask for an explanation, but there has been no reply.

As of Tuesday (3/7) afternoon, Tik Tok can still be opened in the app, but can not be opened in the browser of some providers with the words "Prohibited Site".

Warganet also disagreed about the blocking of Tik Tok. Some agree because some of the content is considered inappropriate.

What is Tik Tok?
Tik Tok calls itself as a creative 15-second video community.

The way it works is simple, the user can just record video for 15 seconds and decorate it with various music, filters, or effects such as rabbit ears, heart images, or a ball.

Previously when BBC Indonesia tried to make a video with the app, the filter was installed automatically when opening the camera feature. With the filter, the face looks more white and smooth. The filter could have been turned off, or replaced with many other filters as desired.

The video can then be shared within its own application or to other social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

Tik Tok is part of Bytedance Inc, a giant Chinese internet company that is also a holding company Musical.ly. In their home country, China, Tik Tok is known as Douyin.

In Indonesia, Tik Tok was officially launched in September 2017 with a launch party in Jakarta. This app is quickly attracting a lot of attention.

Tik Tok is the most downloaded app from the App Store worldwide, and the most downloaded app is number 7 worldwide throughout the first quarter of 2018, according to the SensorTower agency. On iOS alone, the app was downloaded over 45 million times.

The appearance of celebrity Tik Tok
Tik Tok's popularity spawns a new 'celebrity' famous for its activities in the app.

One of them is Prabowo Mondardo, with Tick Tok Bowoo_Outt_Siders account that has more than 840 thousand fans and short videos has been favored more than 7.4 million times.

Prabowo, famous for his name Bowo and often called himself by the name "owo" is a junior high school student in South Tangerang.

Bowo is so popular that his fans are willing to pay Rp80,000 to attend the 13-year-old boy's fan meeting. Not only adored by fans, not a few people who then blaspheme with inappropriate words.

Bowo's mother is proud but sad

Bowo's popularity attracts many fans, but many do not like it. Bowo's mother had to stop working to protect her child. According to him he was proud because many who became his son's fans.

But he is also sad. "Why is my child bully, someone trying to hit me, that makes me not calm, so since I stopped the work, he just walked in. Haternya it loh," said Bowo's mother, Ernawati, to detik.com .

According to ICT Institute Indonesia Director Heru Sutadi, Tik Tok's popularity phenomenon is a common occurrence. "It's just a trendy app, like there used to be a Pokémon euphoria, until there's a furor, now its Tik Tok era," he said.

According to Heru, the popularity of Tik Tok is normal as long as its application is used for useful activities, or at least not harmful. "The use of the application depends on us, if for entertainment legitimate, as long as it does not violate the norm," said Heru.

The instant popularity of Bowo, is the fairness in social media that cuts off the 'bureaucracy' that used to require television or traditional media to become famous.

"It's something we have to face in the era of utilizing information technology, so it's natural that there are people who are popular through certain applications," he said.

"It does not have to be rejected because of such errors, as long as he does not violate the values," he said. But he believed, those who are notoriously fast will be forgotten if not supported by achievement.

"With Tik Tok, it's a lip sync app, so people have to distinguish what he sees on social media may not be the same as reality," he said.

"The use of this application should be wiser, parents should supervise their children and provide input which is allowed and should not," he said.

He supports the government's oversight actions. "If there is excessive content and not in accordance with the values ​​can be supervised or ditake-down," he said.

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