Minggu, 21 November 2010

Warnet User Monitoring

The owners of warnets, or internet cafes, will be required to take down the identity card details of warnet users, a new law says.

Each visitor to a warnet is meant to have his KTP data written down by the owner and submitted to the Indonesia Security Incident Response Team on Information Infrastructure (ID SIRTII), every month.
Communications and Information minister Sofyan Djalil said that the new rule would be put into force this week and that the measure was an attempt to combat online fraud such as carding, and terrorism.
He added that those warnet owners who failed to provide details of their customers would face sanctions if it were found that acts of cyber crime had been committed from their premises.
The head of the 3000 member strong Asosiasi Pengusaha Warnet Indonesia, Judith M.S, said that she supported the measure but that the procedures for submitting the information had not yet been made clear.

Porn Sites

Internet porn sites should be blocked by the government, say religious leaders.

Former Muhammadiyah leader Syafi'i Maarif, generally considered to be more relaxed in his understanding of Islam than the current Muhammadiyah boss, Din Syamsuddin, urges the government to take action against web porn sites.
Syafi'i Maarif
Syafi'i Maarif.
Indonesia was lagging behind its neighbours Singapore and Malaysia in the interception of internet porn, he said in Jakarta on the 20th during a discussion entitled "Peran Pemuka Agama Dalam Pengembangan Keluarga Sejahtera", or the Role of Religious Leaders in Creating Good Family Life".
He believed that porn could damage morality and increase crime rates, and that people who watched porn became only half human, morally speaking. [1]
Separately on the 21st another moderate Muslim leader, Tholchah Hasan of the Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU), agreed, saying also that the Indonesian government had to follow the lead of Singapore and Malaysia and get tough on porn websites. Hasan said that today there were four million pornographic websites in the world, which could be accessed by children and caused untold moral damage.
Tholchah Hasan
Tholchah Hasan.
Hasan, who was minister of religious affairs under president Abdurrahman Wahid and comes from Tuban, East Java, cited an example known to him. A 13 year old girl who had fallen pregnant told her doctor that sexual relations with her older brother had been initiated after the siblings had often seen their parents watching porno movies on DVD. [2]

Internet Porn Censorship, & Children

Areocam on whether the state or parents have the right and responsibility to prevent children's access to pornography.

Recent legislation to block access to online porn and the government's announcement last week of a "National Action Plan on Anti-Pornography Families" brings Areocam to discuss parental, as opposed to state, responsibility.

The Issue of Censorship or "Think of the children!"

Little Adik sits in the warnet. He's nine or ten years old. He's playing Counter-Strike, editing his Friendster page and chatting with his friends. He's cheerful, flush with youth and innocence. His hand slips and he accidentally clicks an ad for a dating site. On the dating site, he finds ads for porn sites. He's heard about them from his friends but has never looked at them because he knows they're bad. This time, he looks and doesn't know what to think of the images he sees. It's an Outside Context Problem for Adik. He has nothing to relate this to, he's yet to go through puberty and has no reaction to this beyond curiosity.
The warnet manager sits behind his desk, playing solitaire and wishing he could be somewhere else. He doesn't give a damn what his customers look at. They could be terrorists planning an attack or children looking at porn - who cares? A wage of a million rupiah a month only ensures the manager keeps everything working and collects money from customers.
Given the above scenario, typical of warnets across the country and internet cafes around the world, who do we point the finger at? The child? No, children shouldn't be made to bear the responsibilities of the world. The warnet manager? No, he or she's doing a menial job for little money and has no right to police individuals beyond taking care of the workplace. So who's left? Who didn't we mention?
Parents.
You got it, parents. Not the government, not ISPs, not anyone, except parents. Do your children have a computer or a TV in their room or do you monitor all that your children watch and browse? Will you allow your 14 year old to see a movie rated for adults only? Do you know what your children are doing now?
This abrogation of responsibility extends to all facets of life, a sickness of a pampered generation who don't have the first idea of how to think for themselves.
Every time you allow another person to determine what you can or can't see, hear, touch, taste or smell, you lose a small piece of individuality, a small piece of yourself that is gone forever.
If violence sickens you, avoid violent words and images. If sexual acts cause you moral outrage, don't watch them. If so-called blasphemous words and pictures cause your faith to waver, stay away!
Most importantly, if you are concerned about the welfare of your children, can we ask you right now to educate your kids about the world, tell them of violence and sex and religious intolerance and ensure they are equipped to deal with whatever they may encounter when you let down your guard or cannot be there to protect them.
Having said that, don't ever tell me what information I can or can't access.

Internet Blocking & Regulation

Government efforts to regulate the internet and block access to porn websites.

Cyber Law
On 25th March a new law on information and electronic transactions (UU Informasi Transaksi Elektronik, ITE) was passed by the parliament in Jakarta. Much of the interest in it focuses on what is forbidden by the law, which is set out in Section 8, Articles 27 to 37.
Article 27:
anyone who deliberately and without rights distributes/transmits/makes accessible electronic information/electronic documents with content that
  • violates decency (kesusilaan)
  • involves gambling
  • is libellous
  • is threatening
Article 28 forbids the spreading of lies over the internet (1) and hate speech (2) directed towards particular groups, based on racial, ethnic or religious differences (SARA).
For both articles violations of the law may lead to imprisonment of up to six years and fines up to 1 billion rupiah ($110,000).
Blocking Sites
Muhammad Nuh, the minister for Information, said three methods to block "unhealthy" (pornographic, hateful, violent) sites could be used: [1] [2]
  • educate people to avoid them
  • provide people with "nanny" software to block them
  • restrict the internet access of schools, campuses, offices, etc (involving blocking direct connections from abroad by using a gateway)
These specific measures against porn sites and others are expected to be set out in one or more ministerial edicts, and due to come into effect in April or May. The "nanny" software is already available for download from the Information ministry website.
However he says that the plan to block adult sites is more of a "moral vision" and that the government is limited in what it can do and needs the help of ISP's and internet cafe operators.
If the ISP's and warnets only succeed in restricting access [to inappropriate sites] by about 15-20% then that's okay, the point is we have made an effort to minimalise access.
He said the government intends to make a list of "negative sites" that are meant to be blocked, and that these websites will be those that are pornographic, hateful, or violent. The list will be continually updated and ISP's and warnets informed of any changes. [3]
Previously Nuh had said that the new law was needed now because the government intends to massively increase the proportion of the population with internet access, particularly in villages.
Download and view UU ITE.
Internet Cafe Raids
In Bogor, West Java, policeman Subur Rahardjo says the police will routinely raid warnets, or public internet cafes, looking for people accessing porn web sites.
He says it will be part of a new campaign against social diseases such as prostitution, liquor drinking, and VCD porn films, and done in support of the the Pornography Law (UU Pornografi), and to make sure the situation was conducive for the coming gubernatorial election in West Java. [4]
And in Bojonegoro, East Java, the police and the regency government intend to coordinate efforts to deal with internet cafes that provide folders of pornographic images on their computers. There are said to be 17 warnets in Bojonegoro, and so far one of these has been caught allowing the storing of porn. [5]

Making Money Blogging

The ways that Indonesian webmasters and bloggers can make some money.

While many people blog, make websites, or spend time online purely for the fun of it or other reasons earning some money while you are writing can be a nice bonus.
For an Indonesian webmaster or blogger one of the problems encountered is that some internet advertising networks will not accept their applications, because of the poor reputation the country often has, while other networks simply have a very cautious approach to Indonesian applicants, but will accept them.
These are some of the main networks that will accept Indonesian accounts, whether CPC (Cost Per Click - you get paid per click) or CPA (Cost Per Action - you get paid per sale or lead), or CPM (Cost Per Thousand - you get paid for displaying ads based on number of ad impressions).
It helps to have a Paypal account for many of these networks (Paypal now, finally, offers Indonesians full send and withdraw accounts - sign up at Paypal).

Text Links

Other websites pay you to put text links to their site. Nothing to do with selling things, just a kind of advertising. You get paid for the length of time you display the text links, not per click.

Paid Posts

These networks pay you to write a post about another website, obviously websites that are selling some sort of product or service. In order to be accepted into these programs you must display the entire content of your posts on the front page of your blog.

CPC

You put ads on your site, usually text ads, and get paid every time someone clicks on one of them. Don't click your own ads, you will likely get kicked out of the program!
Adsense
Example of the "Reports" page in Adsense, showing today's earnings (nothing to do with me).
  • Google Adsense - the Big Daddy, with the biggest ad inventory on the internet, they have advertisers who'll pay for clicks on virtually any topic. Has text, image, and video ads. Payments to Indonesian accounts are only by cheque, other countries have direct deposit. Highly recommended but not at all friendly to Indonesian publishers recently.
  • Adbrite - Has text and banner ads that pay out either per click (CPC) or per 1000 views (CPM). Generally a second best option compared to Adsense though, but very popular with Indonesian webmasters. Sign up at Adbrite.
  • Widget Bucks - Displays Flash format ads, either contextually, by crawling the content of your pages, or by the choice of a product category. For non-north American traffic not well-recommended. Payment by Paypal or cheque. Earn $$ with WidgetBucks.
  • Affiliate Bot - Affiliate Bot might be the most suitable CPA network for Asia based sites as they have a large number of "International" offers, including some Asian ones. Sign up with Affiliate Bot.
  • Chitika - A newish network, advertisers are overwhelmingly in the computer/handphone/ipod areas. Strong filtering of non-North American clicks/traffic however. Payments are once a month via Paypal when your balance passes $10, or by cheque, when balance reaches $50. For tech, gadget and general shopping traffic, well recommended. Sign up for Chitika.
  • Bidvertiser - A smaller pay per click network. Payment by PayPal. Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser.
  • Adtoll - A new pay per click and per per impression network that lets you set a "rate card" to display to potential advertisers. AdToll: Sell Ads On Your Site And Make Money.

Money Makers

Free tutorial on how to make earn money online on internet through Adsense PPC/CPC (Pay Per Click/Cost Per Click), CPM (Cost Per-Mile/Thousand Impression), PPA/CPA (Pay Per Action/Cost Per Action), PPD (Pay Per Download), PPT (Pay Per Tweet/Twit), affiliate program, text link  PTC paid to review etc. Cara mudah bisnis online mencari dan mendapat uang melalui internet dengan modal blog gratis atau self-hosted paid blog.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. Introduction
  2. PPC (Paid Per-Click) International
  3. Make Money from Twitter / Pay Per Tweet (Twit)
  4. Daftar Iklan Indonesia
  5. Fixed Price Ads
  6. Paid to Review
  7. CPM (Cost Per-Mile / One Thousands) Impression Ads)
  8. Affiliate Program (PPA – Paid Per Action)
  9. Top Web Hosting
  10. Webhosting Indonesia

I. Introduction
Making money online is easy. What you need is a blog(s) with good traffics. If you have a blog / website with 1,000 visitors / a day, you should have been able to make money easily by then. It’s especially true if you run a PPC / CPC (Pay Per Click / Cost Per Click) ads program like Google AdSense, Clicksor, where number of visitors does matter. For Indonesians using Bahasa Indonesia-speaking blog, you may join Indonesia’s PPC program such as Kliksaya.com, Kumpulblogger.com and many others.
There are many make-money-online types other than PPCs which are less popular such as PPA / CPA or Pay Per Action / Cost Per Action in which you’ll get paid if someone click the ads and buy the product or subscribe to its mailing list, depends on the agreement. PPD or Pay Per Download is part of CPA/PPA ad in which program you’ll get paid for the file you have uploaded to a particular site and downloaded by visitors.
CPM or Cost Per Mile (means, One Thousand) is advertising program where you as publisher will get paid for every one thousands visitors who come to your ad-embedded site.
Affiliate programs also become supplementary making money online which is very popular to some publisher blogger.
So, first off, if you are serious to make money through internet, you need to have a blog(s) with decent traffics. And to be able to do that, you need to update your blog regularly with a good quality content. Otherwise, how people will come to you if there is nothing offered.
If you are ready to put an ads in your blog, these are some lists of ads program available on the internet. The list will be updated and expanded over time. So, keep visiting this page for more.

II. PPC (Paid Per- Click) Ads International:

Texts and Images
  1. AdSense
    1. How to Increase your Adsense Revenue
    2. Put Adsense in the Middle of Blogger Blogspot Post / Article
    3. Place Adsense in the Middle of WordPress Blog Post / Article
  2. Chitika | Review
  3. Widgetbucks | Review
  4. AdsPilot
  5. Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN)
  6. Clicksor | Review | Requirement to be a Clicksor Publisher
  7. Bidvertiser
  8. AdBrite | Review
  9. Technorati Ads
  10. Etology | Review
  11. Adtoll

In Text Ads / Inline Text Ads
  1. Linkxl
  2. Adbrite | Review
  3. Inlinks
  4. Ads2link
  5. Infolinks
  6. www.kontera.com

III. Pay Per Twit (PPT) Make Money from Twitter
  1. Ad.ly
  2. Magpie PPT Ad
  3. SponsoredTweets
  4. Register Revtwt | Tutorial
  5. Twittad

IV. Daftar Iklan PPC Indonesia
Iklan Teks dan Gambar Indonesia

W3 Total Cache Install Errors

W3 Total Cache Installation Errors. I found errors when installing W3 Total Cache Plugins in some of my wordpress powered blogs. The errors vary, some because of the absence of advanced-cache.php; another due to the absence of wp-content/db.php file. Installation might be successful. But the error message will keep eppearing in your wp dashboard.  Here’s how to fix the problem.
  1. Intro
  2. Error: advanced-cache.php is not installed
  3. Error: db.php is not installed

ERROR ONE: advanced-cache.php is not installed/copied.
Error message: Page caching is not available: advanced-cache.php is not installed. Either the …/wp-content directory is not write-able or you have another caching plugin installed. This error message will automatically disappear once the change is successfully made.
How to fix it:
  • Copy advanced-cache.php file from wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/wp-content/advanced-cache.php
  • Add advanced-cache.php to wp-content/put it here. It’ll look like this -> wp-content/advanced-cache.php
Step by step Tutorial:
  1. Open your server using Filezilla FTP client or login directly into your CPANEL (example.com/cpanel)
  2. Go to wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/wp-content/advanced-cache.php -> copy or download the advanced-cache.php
  3. Back to wp-content/, and paste or upload the advanced-cache.php after wp-content.
  4. It’ll look like this: wp-content/advanced-cache.php
  5. Done. There’ll be no error message after this

Ten Reasons Why We Blog in English

There are at least top ten reasons on why an Indonesian blogger should blog in English. If you run a Bahasa Indonesia blog, like I do, you should have an English speaking blog as well. Here’s why:
1. My English writing skill is not good. I’d like to improve it by writing regularly in a medium where editorial barrier does not exist.
2. English is undoubtedly understood –though not necessarily spoken or written–by many, if not by most, influential people in the world. Hence larger audience, more visibility and influence of some sort.
3. Most internet-literate Indonesians understand English. Using English in my blog, therefore, does not hinder Indonesian readers to appreciate what I’d intend to convey to them, my primary audience.

4. Indonesian voices very much under-represented in the outside world simply because hardly any books, academic publication and conventional media are written in English. Indonesia — a country with more than 240 million population– has a very few English newspapers / magazines / portals and none of existing Indonesian magazines are in English. And hardly any best seller Indonesian books written by prominent intellectuals are written in or translated into English.
5. Among 10 percent of Indonesian internet users, only about 0.4 percent of them are blogging which means if you blog in Bahasa Indonesia you have to be satisfied with that of 0.4 percent readers who does not necessarily read your blog. Less potential readers will lead to less blogging courages.

Making learning fun Two new educational shows on BTV

English in Action, which initiated “BBC Buzz”, is launching two new television programmes -- TV serial “Biswash” and game show “BBC Janala-Mojaye Mojaye Shekha”. Made by the BBC World Service Trust, both programmes will be aired back-to-back on BTV and BTV World, starting from October 16 at 2:15pm. They will be aired every week on Fridays at 6:50 pm and repeated on Saturdays and Tuesdays at 3 pm.
The aim of the programmes is to make learning English fun for children and adults.
“Biswash” is a 24-episode serial set in Bangladesh and the UK. With a focus on family and tradition, it features stories ranging from treasure hunts in Old Dhaka, to an alien looking for a wife and romance on the streets of London. The cast includes A.T.M. Shamsuzamman, Humayun Faridee, Giasuddin Selim, Shaidul Islam, Arabi Rahman, Shama Rahman, and Sameer Ahmed.
“Biswash” will be followed by “BBC Janala-Mojaye Mojaye Shekha”, an educational game show which builds on the English used in the serial. The show will be hosted by Rumana Malik Munmun, with the help of comedian Kamal Bayezid and English teacher Alexandra Tyers.
Incidentally, the last episode of “BBC Buzz” will be aired tonight on ATN Bangla at 9:20 pm. The final episode will feature revisiting of some of its previous episodes.
“BBC Buzz” was launched over a year ago, with the tagline “Celebrating the best of everyday life in Bangladesh.” The aim of the programme was to reflect the diversity, ambitions, aspirations and achievements of young Bangladeshis.
One of the highlights of the programme was 'Everyday Heroes', a platform for young individuals to showcase their talents.
“BBC Buzz” was funded by Ukaid, from the Department for International Development through English in Action, a major educational initiative launched to raise the English language skills of 25 million people in Bangladesh by 2017.

How to Train Your Dragon (film)

How to Train Your Dragon (also released by the name How to Train Your Dragon 3D) is a 2010 computer-animated fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation very loosely based on the 2003 book of the same title. The film stars the voice talents of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at finally gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds that he no longer has the desire to kill it and instead befriends it. The film was released March 26, 2010,[2] to universally positive reviews. The film overcame a disappointing opening weekend at the box office to gross just under half a billion dollars and become DreamWorks Animation's fifth most successful film in the United States and Canada (behind the Shrek film series).