Police in the province of Lampung were left with egg on their faces after announcing they were to receive a prize of founders Larry page and Sergey Brin, in recognition of their website. does not distribute such prices, although it bears an advertising rape Indonesian promotion.
Lampung, the southernmost province of Sumatra, has a proud police force, eager to garner accolades. But his latest award was a joke.
The hoax was apparently started by a web designer, identified in local media reports only as Thomas. Lampung Police said they have engaged once to design and manage their website, tribratanewspoldalampung.info, but his work has stopped there about a year.
On May 30, Thomas visited the headquarters of Lampung Police offer a fresh work on the website. He also informed the head of the provincial police, Brigadier General Edwin Ike, had chosen the site for a price to be "most wanted" all police sites in Indonesia. He said an official letter from would soon be delivered.
Shortly after the meeting, the head of the proud police held a press conference to announce the prestigious award. Lampung Police spokesman Sulistyaningsih told reporters the price would be personally presented by the two founders of at a ceremony in the US on June 10-15.
Local journalists dutifully drafted the exciting news. "Chic! Lampung Police Take Award", trumpeted the Radar Lampung every day. Local officials ran congratulatory ads praising the police.
sycophants also lavished praise on the police Internet users, but others were skeptical. "Watch out for scams, Mr. Policeman or police credibility will be damaged," said a user. Another offered to sell her unicorn pet, cheap, to those who are gullible enough to believe the news.
On June 2, Lampung Police Information Technology Division has contacted the Jakarta office of Indonesia for confirmation of the sentence, to be informed that he knew nothing of honor. Indonesia communications manager Jason Tedjasukmana said the truth of the sentence was against-checked.
Nude Photos
A little common sense by the police, it would have been quite clear that the sentence was absurd. First, tribratanewspoldalampung.info is not the most popular Font Site in Indonesia. Not by a long shot. When the URL (website address) entered in the page ranking portal Alexa.com, it happens with Indonesia ranking 93769. Other sites of the local police in Indonesia have much higher rankings, such as those of East Java (14,621) and Makassar (17955).
Second, a basic search would reveal that founders will hand out awards for the most popular or most searched for websites. It is a price of the founders of , but is limited to internal company projects. Just about any type of reward is a blatant scam. Such as emails claiming that "you have won £ 950,000 for using services." If you try to apply this price, you will be asked to pay huge sums in the costs of administration and treatment.
It is very disturbing that the police can not conduct an audit of the basic facts before making public announcements.
When the words "polisi Lampung" are typed in , the combo autocomplete suggestions reveals the most popular searches for Lampung Police are on suicide and nude photos. suicide was a good policeman, Syahir Perdana Lubis (24), which had more than 24,000 followers on Instagram. He led an investigation unit on local corruption and would have killed himself in February because of a stomach ache.
the search for nude photo comes from the release in 2013 pictures private secretary of the former head of the provincial police. Police said that the photos were released by former jilted boyfriend of police, who then arrested.
Recordings
Brigadier General Ike Edwin, who became head of Lampung Police in January, wants to accumulate honors. Indonesia The World Records Museum (MURI), which was distributed all kinds of trivial cases since its creation in 1990, inducted in April Ike as record holder of being the head of the regional police spend 12 hours continuously public complaints outside the office police. Wow.
In May, Ike received another MURI record for having first and Indonesia the largest anti-drug Provincial Working Group, which includes most of the unpaid civilians and members 127.650 .
Commenting on the award can , spokesman of the National Police Boy Rafli Ama said that people should not be too quick to believe everything they hear, lest they are victims of crooks.
Call to ban
Intellectuals Indonesian Muslim Association (ICMI) June 7 urged the government to close and its video-sharing subsidiary YouTube because they are spread pornographic and violent content.
"These sites are free to disseminate pornographic and violent content without any control. and YouTube have a negative impact on Indonesia, if they can not control the sites they upload to the public" said Secretary Jafar Hafsah ICMI in a press release.
ICMI was created in 1990 to expand the Muslim support for the regime of then President Suharto. It was supposed to serve as the spokesman of the regime, but eventually pave the way for greater Islamization of the political agenda.
Jafar said YouTube and have already cracked down on terrorism-related content, so they should also block pornography and violence. He said almost all authors of recent sexual crimes reported being inspired and motivated after watching porn on the Internet. Jafar did not seem to know that YouTube already blocks explicit porn.
He called on the government to support the development of a customized local search engine for Indonesia. "I think the Indonesian innovators can make a search engine such as and YouTube, but better. Of course, with government support. "
Information and Communication, Ministry spokesman Ismail Cawidu dismissed the appeal to block and YouTube. He said a democratic country can oppose the freedom of information. Indonesia is not like China, which filters Internet content on a massive scale, he added.
in addition, he said, and YouTube are educational content and does not contrive to promote violence and pornography.
rape
Play has been run ads in Indonesia promote rape
Although does not endorse violence or hand awards to police Web sites, its digital distribution platform content, Play, has been running an advertising Indonesia rape promotion.
the ad, which is a new aggregator application called Baca, began to appear in May at the end of some freeware games. Baca often use sexual themed ads to attract potential users. The ad rape is a woman with a battered face and his arms raised, suggesting that it is related. The text (translated here) reads: "A man raped his roommate liked the night The girl thought she was his lover, so she did not fight.." This content is not from an article new, but from a porn site.
patriarchal society of Indonesia has a problem with rape. This is evidenced by leering men groups hissing women who pass by politicians blaming rape victims for their choice of clothing, a senior judge said legislators that victims have a rape that girls are gang-raped.
Blame rape on the Internet, movies or alcohol is stupid. These are only weak excuses for weak men. Families, schools, politicians, advertisers and the media must stop objectifying women.
In addition, needs to stop running ads that promote rape. And the police need to concentrate on stopping sexual violence, rather than run insignificant price.
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Update (01/08/16): Since this article was published, has been contacted to investigate the announcement mentioned in this article, and issued the following statement:
"apps and ads platforms rely on trust between users, advertisers and publishers that is why we have strict policies in place governing the content of applications and advertisements. We do not allow ads or applications that violate our policy rules on our platform and, in the most serious cases, we end with the access to Play. "